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2nd Jan 2009, 08:37
QUOTE:
"The global airline community anxiously awaits investigators' findings in the November 27 crash of an Air New Zealand Airbus 320 on approach to Perpignon, France. Although Airbus has refused to speculate on the cause of the accident, The New Zealand Herald reports the incident may be the third in three months stemming from a defective flight control computer.
"Pieces of the destroyed airliner are now being collected in a large hangar in Perpignon for forensic analysis. Although no one doubts the importance of conducting a methodical investigation, many are dismayed at the delay in extracting information crucial to determining the cause of the accident from the two recovered flight data recorders .."
The question is, if there is an inherent control problem in the software (Honeywell I think), what are all the other operators of Airbus equipment, including SAA, doing about getting to the bottom of this.
"The global airline community anxiously awaits investigators' findings in the November 27 crash of an Air New Zealand Airbus 320 on approach to Perpignon, France. Although Airbus has refused to speculate on the cause of the accident, The New Zealand Herald reports the incident may be the third in three months stemming from a defective flight control computer.
"Pieces of the destroyed airliner are now being collected in a large hangar in Perpignon for forensic analysis. Although no one doubts the importance of conducting a methodical investigation, many are dismayed at the delay in extracting information crucial to determining the cause of the accident from the two recovered flight data recorders .."
The question is, if there is an inherent control problem in the software (Honeywell I think), what are all the other operators of Airbus equipment, including SAA, doing about getting to the bottom of this.