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Old 24th May 2013, 22:10
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V2500 Cowl Latch

V2500 COWL LATCH, just Google it and then you find many incidents, exactly the same as today. Rather than blaming an engineer or a Team of them Airbus should have never allowed a mechanism of this type, the tricky part is that the cowl looks safely latched even when still unlocked whilst other engine cowls clearly look open/unlatched when not locked, clearly a misleading design in my opinion, therefore it will happen again as we cannot rule out human factor on such a simple task which should be clearly visible to all, unacceptable design here. Are we also expecting pilots to pull the handle then to check all latches? Crazy approach indeed. Let's be quick Airbus and fix this design once and for all. We cant carry on being so lucky and this type of incident is totally avoidable, new design and warning sensors.
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