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POPSAnother Pitot Tube Incident Digital fly by wire has been around for decades. How long has Airbus been using these particular pitot tubes? ......Tell the pilots union to order their aircrews to put their hands out the cockpit windows to test airspeed, until these airspeed detection problems are fixed.
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POPSAirbus A330 Problems June 1, 2009 - Air France Flight 447 Rio to Paris Crashes during Atlantic storm, killing 228. Automatic radio messages indicate that in minutes before crash, crew lost autopilot, ADIRU and computerised instruments. June 23, 2009 - Northwest Airlines Hong Kong to Tokyo Flight loses autopilot, ADIRU and instruments before landing safely. US investigation under way.
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POPSAF 447 HIT WATER INTACT IN VERTICAL DIVE This is contrary to previous reports by the experts. After studying the remains of the aircraft and passengers, investigators had said the types of injuries to the people found, had been consistent with inflight breakup of the aircraft. Usually, the large pieces that were found indicate a breakup before impact with the ocean. However, the reasons for an Airbus 330 hitting the water vertically raises a few more questions. For one, did the pilots not have any control after the power outages (PM1 failed). They may not have been able to reorient themselves if they didn't have Artificial horizon functioning and other extremely important devices that would help the crew determine which way is up.
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POPSNTSB to probe problems on other Airbus flights In one of the other incidents, the Airbus plane in question suffered many of the same symptoms encountered by Air France 447. Loss of primary information and autopilot disconnect......Are there other phenomenon that are peculiar to the Airbus 330 that would cause the loss of Primary data, disconnect of autopilot and in AF447, decompression??
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POPSAir France Flight went down in the Intertropical Convergence Zone, or ITCZ High pressure in the Northern Hemisphere churns air from the northeast toward the equator. On the flip side, air is steered from the southeast by high pressure in the Southern Hemisphere. The winds that move this air toward the equator are also known as "trade winds" and converge in the middle of the tropics. That's where the Intertropical Convergence Zone name comes from. Here, air and water temperatures are typically in the mid-80s. The warm, moist air is heated further by the blazing tropical sun. Steamy air, coming off the ocean, rises until it hits cooler, drier air aloft, forming clouds and thunderstorms. These gigantic storms contain volatile updrafts and downdrafts that can move at speeds of 100 mph.
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POPSTwo Passengers on Doomed Flight Linked to Terroris Now we are teetering toward the theory that the destruction of Flight 447 as being a possible victim to Muslim terrorists. Some may remember I posted a news message about a bomb threat to an Air France airliner just a few days before this crash. Although, Brazilian authorities searched the "bomb threat plane" meticulously, it left and landed in Paris without incident. This plane flew the same flight plan as AF 447. Now we may have a possible coincidence according to the French that the names listed on the doomed flight were indeed a match to a list of Islamic terrorists. But, coincidences are easy to accept in hard to believe circumstances. We do have the bomb threats on a previous flight and we have two names of passengers that are considered "a threat" to the French Republic. I wonder if these two names were on the passenger manifest that was held up for the bomb threat flight?. ..... lakotahope.blogspot.com
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POPSAir France #447 - Facts Long list of what the author terms facts. Sounds fairly factual. Of special interest: philosophically different views of the role of computers in aircraft between Boeing and Airbus designs.
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