Airbus technology defects

[xetroV]

Originally Posted by WAGM

Greybeard, ABX,
Thank you for a reasonable reply.
No, this is not a wind up and I don't believe I've been wound either.

This link;

Aviation Safety Investigation Report - Final Airbus A330-341, PK-GPC

or this link;

www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2001/AAIR/aair200104399.aspx

report and my own experience with radalt failure got me interested in the area and made me wonder if just perhaps at least some of that video was based on fact. I believe it would be lazy or stupid just to dismiss it as a fake because that's what was the view of someone else with no specific credentials.

Perhaps there is a PPruner who was involved if the original footage or alternatly the construction of a the fake?

I wasn't involved in the original footage and/or the Heineken version of that movie, but I have seen a TV interview on Dutch TV with the guy who made that commercial. I thought there was an article about it on Internet too, somewhere, but unfortunately I can't trace it back.

However, I remember from the interview that they used footage of a perfectly normal A320 landing at Schiphol and a model (can't remember whether it was a scale-model or CGI) of an A319. The original footage was heavily edited: the livery was changed, the A320 was morphed into an A319, and of course the fake hard landing/braking sequence and the passenger address audio were included.

In the interview, the guy who created that commercial said he had been very surprised by the reactions: he had never imagined anyone to seriously believe this landing to be real. In fact, he had even been worried at the time that the fake landing would be so obviously "over the top" that it would spoil the joke.

Well, he needn't have worried: we now know even aviation professionals can be fooled. WAGM, Zeke wasn't flaming you when he suggested you were gullible; he was just being brutally honest.