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Old 20th Aug 2009, 18:47
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walter kennedy
 
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I think you are missing the point of the recent exchanges on this topic – starting with Cazatou's post which put the “grounding” into perspective in that it was lifted after some fairly minor further checks, trying to counter the spin that the aircraft was somehow not safe for test pilots, even;
Tony Collins countered this by saying that significant changes had been done after the crash – however, the end date he gave was several years later;
so I asked him to quantify this, as the amount of flying done before any such mods were incorporated could either support Cazatou's point or rebut it – and perhaps get this FADEC hysteria into perspective.
<<As far as I'm aware, there is no significant evidence that the FADECs caused the Mull accident.>>
Never mind “significant”, there's none whatsover.
<< But I'm also not aware of any conclusive evidence that they didn't. >>
The data recovered from one of the DECUS (or whatever it was) and the power levels and that dist/time analysis had it that they were slowing down all suggest that FADEC had not caused a problem.
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