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To: TexasKamaAina; 04-Bravo; 1FASTGLOCK45; 1stFreedom; 2ndDivisionVet; 2sheds; 60Gunner; 6AL-4V; ...

AVIATION PING!...............

Fuel cutoff switch in the off position?

That’s not good................


2 posted on 07/11/2025 12:43:17 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger
I called it! :-0
4 posted on 07/11/2025 12:44:43 PM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: Red Badger

Nope, glider-mode is definitely not good.


7 posted on 07/11/2025 12:49:29 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's ok---- I wasn't married to it.)
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To: Red Badger
First rule of electrical engineering: Plug it in.

Second rule of electrical engineering: Turn the switch ON.

13 posted on 07/11/2025 1:02:37 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Red Badger

“Fuel cutoff switch in the off position?”

Fuel cutoff switchES in the off position?


20 posted on 07/11/2025 1:11:02 PM PDT by TexasGator (.i.. logo About Issues Projects Products Connect Subscribe Invest June 19, 2025 | Insight '1-1111 -)
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To: Red Badger

Isn’t that part of a pre-flight check?


35 posted on 07/11/2025 1:25:44 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (TDS much?)
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To: Red Badger

Several news outlets have posted a partial transcript of the cockpit voice recorder. One of the pilots asks. “Why did you cut off?” The other pilot says, “I did not do so”

As the switches have to be manually operated it would appear that one of the pilots did, in fact, move the switches from run to off. And this happened almost immediately after takeoff as the RAT was deployed just a few seconds after rotation. As both pilots had several thousand hours of flight time between them it would seem to strain credibility that this was an inadvertent action.


86 posted on 07/11/2025 3:31:20 PM PDT by technically right
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To: Red Badger

Weird. Those switches are on the center console halfway down towards the floor. Why were they/whomever fooling around down there?


87 posted on 07/11/2025 3:46:02 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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