Automation under suspicion--case flight AF-447 Air France.
The probes allow the pilot to control the aircraft speed was essential to the balance of the flight. Opinions of experts who claim that "the design of the plane would have exercised a not inconsiderable role in the occurrence of a disaster." These messages revealed a series of important operating errors in a zone of turbulence, "making the plane uncontrollable, leading to a rapid depressurization device, according to these reports. A lawsuit in Toulouse and in Brazil aims to recognition of the liability of Air France and Airbus not insignificant role in the design and operation of the aircraft in the event of catastrophe. Opinions are taken from senior pilots that no commercial aviation training for certain situations abnormal flight that, if realized, could have influenced the pilots of the AF-447 to remove the plane's fatal dive show what experiments performed in simulators for military pilots, who are permanently subject to critical flight situations.
Depto. de Design, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. edgardpiloto@gmail.com
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D000060:Accidents, Aviation; D000401:Aircraft; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D008328:Man-Machine Systems