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NTSB investigates on brakes after plane run off Wyoming runway last Dicember

Jackson Hole, Usa - A component was missing from a cockpit mechanism

Aviation investigators are looking into two braking systems on an American Airlines plane that ran off a runway while landing at the Jackson Hole Airport (see AVIONEWS). The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said this month its investigators discovered a component was missing from a cockpit mechanism that controls the speed brake, a set of wing flaps that rotate upward. The agency said...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1125055
Rome, Italy, 01/26/2011 15:42
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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