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Sheddy:
Is there any truth in the rumour that Boeing used Lucas electrics on their 777 aircraft?

Disco Matt:
 :lol:

Seriously, I don't think Boeing will be very happy. There is now a question mark hanging over the fly by wire systems on the 777 (initial reports suggest that despite the autopilot and then the pilot asking for more power the aircraft failed to respond).

Anyone else notice shades of the Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash? There is a strong suspicion that the engines on that wouldn't respond either...

skip:
Even though I'm no advovate of complex electronics in vehicles of any kind. Modern commercial aircraft control systems are, in the case of mechanical parts fail safe, or electronic systems that have multiple redundant duplicates of the same system.

For instance you only have one ECU for the engine on a car and should that fail your stuffed. however an aeroplane will have more than one for the job, If the primary one should fail another will instantly take up the workload, IIRC this can happen upto 4x on some aircraft.

The chances of a simple electronic failure being solely responsable are so small as to discounted. Every time an accident occurs there is a chain of events that lead upto it.

Range Rover Blues:
Well I'm sure the investigation will be very thorough, whether we the public learn the truth I don't know :?

waveydavey:
What bugs me is that as it's a Boeing they wait for the results, if it were an Airbus they would have grounded them all until they get the results.

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