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Old 9th Apr 2008, 18:47
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Huck
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The air/ground switch failed, and the default is the ground position.

Therefore the anti-ice was disabled.

Good damn thing they hadn't armed the spoilers yet, or they would have deployed to the ground position. Valujet had that happen once.

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