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Seconds of Silence: How a Faulty 'Arthur' Killed Six on Flight 3838
Seconds of Silence: How a Faulty 'Arthur' Killed Six on Flight 3838
A familiar warning light had blinked on this jet eight times in forty months, and the cockpit voice recorder was already broken before takeoff - leaving forty-seven minutes of flight, including the fatal twenty-four seconds, unrecorded. How did a misconfigured control system called Arthur turn routine inputs into a catastrophe that killed six people?
In this episode, we tell what happened on September 14, 1999, aboard a Dassault Falcon 900B registered SX-ECH, describe the sequence of maintenance warnings and crew decisions…
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