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Old 29th Sep 2008, 23:31
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It is possible that total hydraulic failure was named as the proximate cause of the JAL crash. However, that was, as you said, a catastrophic airframe failure that in turn caused the other failures. There was NOTHING that another hydraulic pump or RAT could have done in that situation.
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