It looks like Spanair did basically the same.
Since the copilot was the one in control, they selected flight computer 2.
Unfortunately, the Data Flight Recorder had problems reading the data everytime that computer was selected.
As a result, most of the flight recorder data of interest for this accident is not readily available.
No idea why the slats' position goes through the flight computer and then to the data flight recorder.
But as a result, only things like the flaps position and the RAT temperature can be obtained from the FDR "as is", since they went directly to the recorder without going through the computer first.
But the slats position can not be conclusively obtained from the DFR in this situation, since it didn't properly record anything coming from computer nš2. It worked fine with computer nš1, but that was not the one in use during this accident.
Last edited by justme69; 9th Oct 2008 at 21:40.