Yeah, it has been mentioned before. FDR recorder data has been successfully retrieved and it's being verified and analysed by Boeing.
Voice recordings are not of good quality (not fully understandeable), so it's been filtered and enhanced in labs prior to analysis.
Green-dot: yeah, you know how reliable the press is. Since we don't know if take off took longer than normal before or after VR, it is indeed still possible a scenario where a reverser accidentaly deployed around VR. But the flight attendant speaks of the Airbus pilot avan speaking of "something weird" just about as soon T/O was initiated. One would like to assume a pilot with over 10 years of experience would've noticed a deployed reverser before V1.
The press also insists on this airplane not being able to deploy reversers unless on the ground, but I think others here have confirmed that the MD-82 indeed can have them deployed while flying, even voluntarily (so even more in case of a malfunction).
Have there been cases of MD-82's with truly uncommanded reverser deployment under "normal conditions" (i.e. totally smooth operation, no other problems, turbulence, bad weather etc)?
Last edited by justme69; 29th Aug 2008 at 09:18.