The silent right strut stopped the reversers - did they stop in time?
A Tupolev touches down at Vnukovo and one right main strut sends no compression signal-did the silent strut stop the reversers in time?The silent right strut stopped the reversers - did they stop in time?In this episode, we follow a repositioning Tupolev Tu-204 landing at Vnukovo where a single missing strut signal triggered a cascade of system failures across thirty-two seconds after touchdown. The episode traces the crew, the aircraft, the weather, and the chain of maintenance and reporting that connect this crash to an earlier near-identical event-what does that chain mean for the people…
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