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To: TobagoJack who wrote (147957)4/25/2019 1:24:19 PM
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Pilots doing the wrong thing can crash any aircraft made.

The A330 is a wonderful piece of machinery. Like all two engine aircraft, Airbus had to prove it can successfully take-off after one of the engines fail. So the professional test pilots shut down one of the two engines just as they became airborne and killed all seven people on board in a fiery crash. Other test pilots later figured out how to perform this engine failure on take-off without crashing. Could a typical pilot do the damage? Probably not.

The combined Angle-of-attack / pitot tube speed sensor failed on the Air France 447 Airbus A330. This gave the pilots an over-speed warning telling them they were flying too fast. Then the autopilor shut-off and the cascading failures led all three flight computers to reboot leaving the pilots with dark instrument screens and limited flight controls. If the pilots had correctly guessed they were actually flying far too slowly they would hsve added throttle and all would have been well. But given the over-speed warning they reduced their speed to something likr 110 miles per hour and spent the next 15 minutes or so falling straight down towards the ovean.

When the senior pilot arrived on their flight deck, standing up he was first to glimpse the ocean. He exclaimed, "This can't be" and pushed the throttles to maximum just before they pancaked onto the ocean with a vertical speed of something like 400 miles per hour and a horizontal speed around 200 mph.

Jay Chen surmised a bomb was on board because there had been no distress call.

There's 96% fewer crashes with these modern avionics than there was in the 1960S.

China wanted to build their Comac C-919 with ancient avionics from the 1960s so they could legally steal the IP. Just wait till you see the crash rate of the C-919 after it has been flying for five years or so....
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