Seems like something as critical as thrust in this phase of flight should have some kind of cross-check validation. Sounds like a bad single point of failure to

Seems like something as critical as thrust in this phase of flight should have some kind of cross-check validation. Sounds like a bad single point of failure to me, but maybe there is a cross check I don’t know about that isn’t covered in the story. What I do know is that with something like this, a little could go a long way. I wonder what the inspection and repair for a tail strike is, and whether that cancels out the money saved by minimum viable thrust across the fleet. I’m sure someone is punching the calculator on this to determine that.