A320 - Northwest should have known...
Question for any A320 pilots out there --
If you receive a BSCU Channel 2 failure shortly after takeoff, then later receive a Landing Gear Shock Absorber fault when dropping the gear, what does the manual tell you to do? What does common sense tell you to do? NW decided to land as normal and not prepare the cabin for very short landing run (nor tell the pax that something was amiss). Info obtained directly from the NTSB investigator working the case....