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		jeffbee on Sept 5, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Incident: Airbus A330 at Taipei, primary computers... Accidental deployment of thrust reversers is a bad thing and incidents of that kind have killed a lot of people. It seems better to bias the failure modes toward non-deployment. The reversers are not critical systems, and aircraft are permitted to operate even if their reversers are not operational. They mainly save wear and tear on the tires and brakes.

HPsquared on Sept 5, 2021 | [–]

In other words, it's more important to ensure they don't deploy when they shouldn't, than that they do deploy when requested.

braza on Sept 5, 2021 | [–]

This was one of the reasons of why TAM3057 crashed in São Paulo.

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