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Old 16th Oct 2007, 12:07
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Endeavour
 
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Because over the years there have been a number of incidents when aircraft have moved whilst boarding / loading / refueling, when the park brake was released to fool ACARS into recording an 'on time' departure.

If you know that releasing the brake won't achieve the objective then the brakes don't get released, nobody gets hurt and the aircraft doesn't get damaged. It avoids disrupting the operation and a great deal of paperwork.
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