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The A380 does this. If you watch the Air Crash Investigations episode (also known as "Mayday) Season 13 Episode 10 - it talks about the Qantas A380 that had an
by laurencei 13y ago
The A380 does this. If you watch the Air Crash Investigations episode (also known as "Mayday) Season 13 Episode 10 - it talks about the Qantas A380 that had an engine explosion.
All the data from the plane was being relayed back to Qantas HQ - and the engineers at Qantas HQ were able to see in realtime all the issues facing the plane.
Ironically there were so many issues, they actually initally thought the system was faulty (i.e. there were too many faults, so the fault must be the alert system).
- einhverfr 13y agoThat's another case of the automation paradox though, is it not? The engineers are suddenly inundated with all kinds of information and it isn't clear what the actual cause is. When you look at AF447, part of the problem was that the pilots appear to have been unaware that all the errors they were seeing were caused solely by loss of airspeed indicators. So most of the time you aren't looking at stuff, then suddenly something happens and you get tons of information on what exactly isn't working right now, all of which may or may not be useful in determining what the real problem is. And in this case humans have to step in quickly and react flawlessly based on perfect knowledge of the failure.