A certain set of keys randomly stop working in a Flex application

My company has a Flex application (version 4.5.1), and certain keys will stop working from time to time when typing in a TextInput (the MX variety).
Each occurrence has been on a Windows machine. I have noticed it in Internet Explorer 11, using 15.0.0.152 (developer version), and co-workers have noticed it on other versions of IE (I don't know which Flash Player versions they were using, but they weren't the developer versions).
About the only major change I can think of that may coincide with this issue would be having to convert a Google Map from using the Flash API to the JavaScript API.
The keys that have stopped working are: k, m, !, #, $, %, &, (, -, _, =, +, ', " (capital "K" and "M" still work)
I can still paste these characters into the text box even when the keys aren't working, so it's not an issue with the text box not accepting the characters. I can have the application open in multiple tabs and have things working normally in 1 tab but not the other. I have seen the keys stop working and start working again without refreshing the tab.

Understood. We have an extensive set of automated regression tests, and in the rare instances where we do break text input, it's an on/off thing. This is super interesting because it's so weird, but I have zero theories about why it might be happening.
If it is a Flash bug, there's probably a really long sequence of steps required to get it into a wonky state where this would occur, and the only way that we would figure out what's going on would be to reproduce it under an interactive debugging session. I'll ask around, but I've been working on the engineering team since 2006 and I've *never* seen this. I really like crazy stuff like this, but I've got nothing...

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