Originally Posted by
Pontius Pilot
Never heard of it...and we went through that accident in excruciating, gut-wrenching detail at the school house.
Alas, the ATR is not quite that sophisticated. If you select flaps 300kts above Vfe, they will go down - it'll ***** at you, but there is no overriding.
There was at the time. Go check out the AD that came out after the accident. The MFC flap override protection was removed from the programming.