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This is for the pilots/experts here. I'm always into more technical explanations if there is one . Just curious to know what is going on with the #2 reverser if you can surmise from the video (#1 obviously failed):
A technical problem (hydraulic or electric) prevented the deployment of the no. 1 reverser buckets. The pilots tried to rectify it by cycling the reversers, but no. 1 still doesn't deploy. All in all not much of a problem, though. Aircraft can (in fact, must be able to) land safely without reversers.
Is there ever a situation in which only one would be deployed intentionally? Is that even possible?
It is possible. I once took a picture sequence of a perfectly normal landing of an Iberworld A330-200 landing at Amsterdam and deploying only the reverser on the right-hand engine. Unfortunately, that was in my early days of photoshopping and I didn't edit the picture well enough to get it uploaded, so I can't link it here.
As for the situation where only one reverser would be deployed intentionally, I can imagine that if one reverser is inoperative, the onther one could still be used with the engine staying at idle reverse. A little rudder during rollout should be enough to keep the aircraft on the runway.
As for the situation where only one reverser would be deployed intentionally, I can imagine that if one reverser is inoperative, the onther one could still be used with the engine staying at idle reverse. A little rudder during rollout should be enough to keep the aircraft on the runway.
In fact, at least in the cases that I know, full reverse could and normally would be used.
But nothing of that explains what we see in the video here.
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