Well, maybe?
Any thoughts on it @smokinhole? Some are saying tyre fire from burning hydraulic fluid now so not sure
I have one thought and one theory. Neither support the crew. San Jose, a place I’ve landed at many times, is not a nice airport in an emergency. Liberia, just down the hill, is awesome. It appears that the left motor is producing thrust—maybe LOTS of thrust. My theory is that the reverser sleeves didn’t fully deploy on the left side. One checks for green reverser annunciations before pulling past the detent/stops. The stops should prevent adding thrust without a green indication but they can fail too. Thus the check.
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That actually makes a lot of sense. Looking at the locked up wheels, the wrong side is locked to produce the spin. Plus it does come round faster than i would of guessed.
Thanks for that @smokinhole glad i aaked you.
Would hydraulic failure (or could) produce asynchronous thruster deployment? Is that possible?
I would image it could. Each reverser is on its respective hydraulic side.
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Is asymmetrical reverse uncontrollable/ill advised on larger airliner type aircraft? Never thought about it…
We have the option of single engine reversing if we need to, and in the sim it’s not a big deal, but our engines are much closer to centerline.
In the real world, I’d probably say “nah dawg” and leave them alone.
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It is controllable if everything else is working. But if you are producing forward thrust, as it appears they are with that left motor, all bets are off.
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Gotcha. Yeah, totally get that and suspect it’s likely what happened. I’d just never wondered whether they do SE reversing or not, thanks for the answer!
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Juan looks into the accident and presents a good 757/67 hydraulics overview.
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Near collision between 2 Volaris A320s. 1 is on short final. 1 is line-up and wait on the runway. 
Nice job by everyone- crew, ATC, airport ops and fire rescue.
Freight dogs never get enough love. 
i didn’t hear about this one. Probably because 1) it happened in the wee hours of the morning 2) no passengers, “just cargo”. 3) no fatalities
I suppose if it happened during the day, it would’ve got more attention with local news helicopters circling.
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Wow investigation is still ongoing?
Mexico City is such a S***show. I love the town but will gladly accept never seeing it again as a small price for never flying there again. I’d bet that the incident filmed actually happens several times a year. Landing airplanes are reassigned parallel runways very late in the approach when the timing for departures gets a little off.
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I can relate to feeling that way about certain places. And the inverse, as well!
I saw this device on the YouTube today … what a great idea! Levil Aviation’s BOM …
Any of you real life pilots tried it?
I think the Russian Air Force would love them since I heard the Ukrainians were finding civilian GPS units taped to the panels of shot down Russian jets! 
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That sounds like a pretty cool idea!
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Oh LUCKY! Steveo went up in an F-16 with the Thunderbirds! …
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Oh dear. This happened to me in FSX and that’s already embarrassing enough. I wonder what happened there, maybe task saturation or something.
While I’ve never done that, I have had moments of confusion. We call it the ‘confused, empty feeling’. My response to that has always been to slow down, stop, re-study the taxi diagram and re-orient myself/ourselves. A couple times I’ve had to call ground and fess up that we’ve made a wrong turn (never into a runway, thank God!) and await instructions. No harm, no (major) foul, although I have gotten the phone number because of it once at a major international airport. (Our saving grace was that the taxiway sign was actually missing at that intersection, so there was some ambiguity there.)
That confused feeling is much like having an amber/red light on the annunciator panel; you don’t take off until you’ve cleared it.
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