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To: Berlin_Freeper

There was another model of aircraft (I don’t recall which) that crashed several a few decades ago because a pilot would drop a microphone (inadvertently, of course) into a well between the control-yoke-column and the floor, preventing pulling the yoke back to stop a dive.


12 posted on 04/19/2016 2:38:22 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Ouch.
Not good “failure mode effects and analysis” on that platform.


14 posted on 04/19/2016 2:40:40 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: DuncanWaring

In the 1930s an early airliner crashed in San Francisco when a microphone cord got tangled up in the yoke.


26 posted on 04/19/2016 5:51:27 PM PDT by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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