4 ms·
And they have an history with FBW-caused accidents. Especially AF296 killed 3 people when they try to demonstrate the anti-stall capacity of the FBW during an
by orwin 7y ago
And they have an history with FBW-caused accidents.
Especially AF296 killed 3 people when they try to demonstrate the anti-stall capacity of the FBW during an airshow. Airbus modified the way the fbw control reclamation worked after this. After the Rio-Paris accident (forgot the flight name, it was AF too), they changed the way the degradation worked wehn sensor fails (i think now 3 different mode exists, and information is more visible).
Those incident killed people, and there is a chance that the first one was actually caused only by the manufacturer (the second one was 99% the pilot though, the remaining 1% was: better information, better sims and better gradation so that even new, tired pilot can't make this kind of mistake).
- thatswrong0 7y agoThat AF 296 was caused by FBW is more of a conspiracy theory than anything else. Even if it were true that the pilots applied TOGA power a few seconds before the investigation concluded they did, they were still flying way too low with engines at idle. Poor planning, pilot error.
- PaulHoule 7y agoThere have been plenty of accidents involving the failure of old analog control systems too. FBW adds cyber-related failure modes, but it is hard if not impossible to make the traditional hydraulics, strings, springs and pully-based systems resilient against failures since the number of things you have to duplicate explodes exponentially.