Although Air France CEO Gourgeon said last month there’s no evidence that the crash was caused by the Pitot tubes, which were made by Thales SA. Bouillard also said last year that speed-sensor failure couldn’t alone explain the crash, and that aviation records in Europe and the U.S. document dozens of incidents where the probes failed and pilots retained control.
Air France and Airbus have been charged with manslaughter over the accident
In our opinion, we believe the failure of the pitot tubes played to the weakness of the Airbus fly by wire logic system. We believe that the fly by wire system received a barrage of false data put out by the frozen tubes, and shut down, taking control of the plane from the pilots. Faulty computer logic does not excuse faulty pitot tubes,
This is conjecture on our part, but we will not be surprised if/when the black boxes are recovered, that they will reveal what happened, if they are still readable.
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Details regarding the passenger’s identity and the underlying reasons for the attempted suicide remain undisclosed. However, onboard crew members, assisted by a physician among the passengers, administered initial medical assistance to the individual
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A post-flight inspection revealed a missing panel on an older Boeing 737-800 that had just arrived at its destination in southern Oregon on Friday after
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An Alaska Airlines flight from Washington D.C. to Portland, Oregon suffered a cracked windshield, with 159 passengers and 6 crew onboard. Despite the crack the crew of the Boeing 737 landed safely.
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A Lufthansa flight with 190 passengers on board made an emergency landing Monday in Rhodes after reporting smoke in the cabin, according to the operator of Greek regional airports, Fraport.
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While no one was injured, most of the mishaps required emergency landings or diversions. One safety expert said the incidents were not the result of “systemic problems.”
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In Latham, the governor honored upstate natives Casey Frankoski and John Grassia who gave the ultimate sacrifice.
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A Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt to Dubai has been diverted to Rhodes where it landed just before 6 p.m. Monday.
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Shamiso Mosaka was removed from a flight by police officers after crew said she was being “abusive”.
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International airlines often do not file the marketed destination as their flight plan destination. Here’s how and why a “redispatch” works.
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Articles and videos about Gila Bend Municipal Airport plane crash kills 1, injures another on FOX 10 Phoenix.
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US-based Deep Sea Vision, which claimed to have found Amelia Earhart’s long lost plane on the Pacific Ocean floor, says it will a use craft called a Hugin 6000 to hunt for the missing MH370 plane
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One person is dead and another is in serious condition following a small plane crash near Gila River Municipal Airport.
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One person died and another was injured following a plane crash Sunday morning at Gila Bend Municipal Airport.
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A DEEP sea exploration company has promised to send a state-of-the-art underwater drone to the bottom of the sea to finally solve the MH370 mystery. Over a decade ago, the Malaysian Airlines flight…
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Reba McEntire remembered her former bandmates and tour manager on the anniversary of the fatal plane crash that took their lives.
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ON March 17, 1957, a presidential plane crash at Mount Manunggal, the highest mountain peak in Cebu, Central Philippines, took the life of 50-year-old President Ramon del Fierro Magsaysay, the seventh president of the Philippines, and 25 others traveling with him.
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Last Wednesday the Defence Secretary Grant Shapps was travelling on a Dassault 900LX, RAF aircraft which was attacked by electronic warfare in a jamming
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