'Thrust reverser' broken on plane that slid into Florida river

The failure of the left-hand "thrust reverser" on the Boeing 737-800 was one of the factors investigators were looking at, as well as a request by the pilots to change runways, said National Transportation Safety Board Vice Chairman Bruce Landsberg. The plane chartered by the U.S. military landed during a thunderstorm at Naval Air Station Jacksonville on Friday night and was arriving from Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba with 136 passengers and seven crew members. "The aircraft had been in maintenance and the maintenance log noted that the left hand thrust reverser was inoperative," Landsberg told a press conference, explaining that the component slowed an aircraft by diverting thrust from an engine.

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