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Old 5th May 2009, 18:55
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Delta Airlines B763 near Bangor on May 4th 2009, air data computer failure, lost most

wow,, this sounds like a really serious situation ,,or?

Can imagine losing everything in the middle of night somewhere down the road

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like the Martinair a few years ago:
b767-lost-primary-instruments
(Don't know whether it was at night though)
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To lose both would appear related to electrical power and a failure therein, but there again, I'm doing the one thing for which I criticise others: speculating!
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The Qantas 744 boys and girls had a pretty dead unit recently after a water leak in a galley found its way into the electrics
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