So m00, what experience do you have "flowing" the 747, then?
The stories about an uncommanded max reverse deployment on number 4 engine appear to be correct. The aircraft had landed on Runway 17, and was taxi-ing on "B" taxiway when the engine slammed into full reverse, and the aircraft departed the taxiway and ended up a few metres to the right, and sank in soft ground. I haven't heard of an uncommanded application of reverse thrust on a 747 before, but it is just as well that it didn't occur in the air, as happened to the Lauda Air 767 some years ago, when the wing was ripped off.
Moral: Don't trust a word that the reptiles in the press ever write, and don't rush to judgement.
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