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Old 9th Jan 2013, 16:25
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Apparently there is more to this accident than it seems.

"it was pointed out for immediate action to prevent malfunction of limit switches, landing gear failures, wing mechanisation and control of the front landing gear at the taxi."

1) limit switches - ok, we know already that these switches did not work and prevented the brakes and reverse from working.

2) landing gear failures - a better translation would be "landing gear extension and retraction system failures". Did they have problems with landing gear? When? Why? What kind of problems?

3) wing mechanisation - probably means that spoilers did not extend.

4) control of the front landing gear at the taxi - did they try to turn off the runway? how is that possible at this kind of speed? were they completely desperate?

This is frightening news, considering that the information comes from the most official source, the state air transport safety body...
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