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The Power of Aircraft Hydraulic Redundancy Systems

The Power of Aircraft Hydraulic Redundancy Systems
They’re why today’s aircraft rarely crash – but surprising flaws reside in the system.

In November 2010 a Qantas Airbus A380-842 was flying from Singapore to Sydney with 440 passengers and 26 crewmembers onboard. About 6 minutes into the flight, just as it was climbing out of Singapore over the Indonesian island of Batam, passengers heard a loud bang as a rotor disc exploded, spraying metal into the #2 engine. One of the shards jettisoned into a wing and severed the hydraulic line, which caused the hydraulic circuit to lose its fluid. The event was so spectacular that…
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