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Old 7th Dec 2009, 04:45
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cithos
 
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Khormaksar over-run

I seem to recall a conversation with one of the crew members many years ago in which he explained that everyone had evacuated O.K. and only later was it realised that the engines were all still running with the free-turbine props. stuck firmly in the mud.

Evidentally neither the master crash switch had been activated nor had a sufficient number of the individual inertia crash switche sensed the event.

Now here's a good ARB question - what was the minimum number of crash switches that had to be activated to shut down the engines?

And a question for your average Pub Quiz ... was the Brit. the last UK registered civil aircraft to be fitted with crash switches?
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