Yup.  That's right.  If there's a single point of failure, the odds of a catastrophe are the same as the odds of that single component failing.  If it takes "a whole bunch" of failures strung together to cause a catastrophe, the odds of it happening are the product of the odds of all the individual pieces multiplied together.   I was doing the math.  IIRC the original post said something like "... no flags, no warnings, no nothing ..."
We'll know soon enough what happened ... Jim S.

Dale Rogers wrote:

Jim,

   You're *assuming*, aren't you, that this was the result 
of a _single_ failure?  Could have been a whole bunch of 
things went to &#^!, and the "failsafe" failed, too.

Dale R.


  

From: Jim Sower <canarder@frontiernet.net>
Date: 2005/09/23 Fri PM 05:35:39 EDT
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Powersports RV-8 engine out???..... Total
 Electrical Failure

Amazing that an all-electric airplane would have a single point of 
failure in the electrical system.
Wonder what happened ...  
    

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