flight control

Both crashes were primarily attributed to a poorly designed flight control system, which activated at the wrong time due to a sensor failure.

Both crashes were linked to faulty flight control systems.

That’s because planes have backup hydraulic systems, which are used to power equipment like the landing gear, brakes, wing flaps and flight controls, allowing planes to take off, fly and land.

Flaws in that new flight control system led directly to the crashes that killed 346 people.

Barnett said he saw discarded metal shavings near wiring for the flight controls that could have cut the wiring and caused a catastrophe.