Reply to post: Re: RAT trap

Boeing 787 software bug can shut down planes' generators IN FLIGHT

John H Woods Silver badge

Re: RAT trap

"Even the best trained pilots are going to break into a sweat when much of the power goes off and the last ditch RAT deploys. " -- AC

True; the AF447 pilots flew their perfectly airworthy plane into the ocean just because their pitot tubes froze, and they lost an instrument (airspeed) that they could easily have managed without, if they hadn't made such a big and fatal deal about it.

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