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Old 7th Nov 2011, 21:26
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Originally Posted by cat3autoland
The danger in doing a reset is that power will be introduced into a circuit that may have a fault and during the time it takes for the c/b to react, a severe reaction "could" take place.
Not just could, but did - resulting in the loss of a Vickers Valiant on 11 May 1956.

Read about it here: ASN Aircraft accident 11-MAY-1956 Vickers Valiant WP202
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