I knew of several accidents most likely caused by an accidental reverser deployment, but being, from my understanding, an active system that requires of hydraulic assistance to be deployed (under normal, not extreme conditions such as strong vibrations, etc), I always thought it would be quite "impossible" for one to deploy "just like that".
Again, I understand it becoming loose or whatever from bangs, vibration, extreme weather, etc, but thought that under normal conditions an ACTIVE rather than passive type of malfunction would have to be necessary to make them engaged.
If it is a design problem that allows for a malfunction to trigger them, wouldn't it have been solved by now? Nobody would fly a thing that under some "normal" circunstances could enter reverse w/o warning ...
Last edited by justme69; 29th Aug 2008 at 09:53.