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Originally Posted by tk13
News anchor Miles O'Brien on CNN (who is a pilot) said he was talking to some of his pilot friends and one of them brought up a situation in Warsaw about 12 years ago where a plane tried to land on a wet runway and hydroplaned... and when that happened the plane's computer systems read that as the plane hadn't landed yet because the wheels were spinning off the ground, so they wouldn't allow the braking system to work properly, and the pilot was helpless to stop the plane. Didn't say that's what happened, but it's another possibility.
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That actually makes a helluvalot of sense. However, surely they have some kind of override system. No?