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Aviation Geeks unite?! Anybody else care about planes here?

What's your level of interest in aviation?!


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My amateur and probably poorly informed suspicion is fuel system controller (FSC) shutdown due to thermal stress, starving the engines and leading to electrical failure and RAT deployment. However, I would have thought that such a vital controller would be multiply redundant against failure.

Here's another possible cause of engine starvation discussed - vapour lock - again due to thermal stress:

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Great channel for learning about such things.
 
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My amateur and probably poorly informed suspicion is fuel system controller (FSC) shutdown due to thermal stress, starving the engines and leading to electrical failure and RAT deployment. However, I would have thought that such a vital controller would be multiply redundant against failure.

Here's another possible cause of engine starvation discussed - vapour lock - again due to thermal stress:

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Great channel for learning about such things.

Yeah great channel. I posted one of his videos on the previous page. Very interesting stuff indeed
 
starting about 5 minutes in a technical look at the systems on the 787-8 that people are attributing to the Air India crash.

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last section is the RAT and the causes for it to auto deploy as it's unlikely the crew deployed becasue they would have had to run through the checklist first and there simply wasn't time.

first part of the video covers changes that Airbus has made to the Neos regarding drain masts
 
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