Originally Posted by
CONSO
For example- cable-rat-hydraulic backup for minimal flight control when everything else turns to poo has been on 767 since day one over 30 years ago. check out Gimli glider . ..
Oh for crying out loud - this is embarrassing. Of course, as we all know, only american aircraft have ever had standby flight controls, and no fly-by-wire airliner ever had the ability to continue flight without engines running. That's why Air Transat 236 plummeted into the ocean the second the engines stopped.
Oh hang on - did it...?