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AnthillOmbudsman t1_irh1xos wrote

Hmm, maybe a $2 squat switch on the landing gear would have saved countless hundreds of thousands of dollars.

This is why raising the gear while sitting at the gate doesn't do anything on modern airliners, though if the crew does so it will probably require an underwear change.

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Tangent_ t1_irhhtu5 wrote

Based on the other article linked to here that wouldn't have helped. What was happening according to that one was the pilots were flipping the wrong switch on approach, not post touchdown.

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