The safety agency says it has received 30 complaints from Corvette owners about the sudden malfunction of both low-beam headlights, although fog lights and high beams continue to work.
And they have argued to the Safety Board that although engineers in a simulator could recover from the dive, a crew startled by a sudden malfunction while flying over the ocean at night might not be so skilled.
In that same thread, a user observed, "Definitively this was not a situation of a sudden plane malfunction, the pilot or one of the crew members would have sent radio message or distress signal," speculating that "this plane was voluntary shutdown by Malaysian Air Force to prevent an imminent terrorist attack," or that "the plane has exploded in high cruising altitude".
The Acme Spring-Powered Shoes...no explanation has been found for this product's sudden and extreme malfunction...
Epilepsy is characterized by a sudden and recurrent malfunction of the brain, a "seizure" [2].
On the morning of June 16, a cancer patient in the critical care unit suffered a sudden, life-threatening heart malfunction.
"This gun could not just be sitting on a table and all of a sudden, due to some malfunction, go off".
Monitoring system malfunction means any sudden, infrequent, and not reasonably preventable failure of the monitoring system to provide valid data.
Mechanical malfunction — say, a sudden decompression that renders everyone onboard unconscious but lets the plane continue to fly — is still possible.
Malfunction means any sudden, infrequent, and not reasonably preventable failure of air pollution control equipment, emissions monitoring equipment, process equipment, or a process to operate in a normal or usual manner which causes, or has the potential to cause, the emission limitations in an applicable standard to be exceeded.
