Originally Posted by
glendalegoon
anyone remember that lear that lost its braking system because the plane ''thought'' it was airborne? aborted and couldn't use wheel brakes?
The Lear crash you are referring to was a result of pilot error. They had a tire blow-out and the captain attempted to abort their takeoff above V1. (The FO can be heard on the CVR saying, “Go, go go.”) It MIGHT have turned out better had the thrust reversers worked but the tire also took out a squat switch that locked-out the thrust reversers in flight. So they were attempting an abort at 140 kts. with blown-out tires and no reverse thrust.