NOD:
Sorry - cannot recall it, so either not read it, or dismissed in my mind as not really relevant, or too MD-80/DC-9 specific for me...
As Follows:
Just thinking out loud and to ask for clarification from the experts. If the A/C thought it was flying because of a faulty WOW switch, would the TOCW still operate? If not, then the C/B issue is possibly a red herring?
It seems hard to believe however that such a simple problem could lead to such a disaster and there there is no redundancy inbuilt?