[NefCanuck]

Slimsride,Aug 3 2005, 10:38 PM Wrote:See this is what i don't understand,

this is an AIRBUS 340 right...huge aircraft.  Now aircraft always have redundant systems  built in IE.  secondary hydraulic systems, and so on.  If this aircraft was under COMPLETE power loss, braking systems always have an emergency system of some sort, just for such scenerios, which should of stopped this aircraft way before the gulley.

(okay okay i'm an aviation nerd)
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I think there was another theory that the tires were hydroplaning (Which would possibly account for the engaging of the reverse engines that witnesses say they heard as the plane was trying to stop on the runway)

Isn't the Airbus A340 a "fly by wire" aircraft? If it is then if all the power went out, for even a moment everything would be "fux0r3d" and even if it came back on line right away wouldn't it be subject to a rebooting procedure?

Now I'm admitting here and now that I have no idea whether or not I'm right on the type of control system the A340 uses, so I may be talking out of my @$$ here, but that's one explanation I suppose

NefCanuck