Originally Posted by ECAM_Actions
My bad - the Paris airshow - the one where it went into the trees after doing a 100 ft fly-by.
Oh dear. Here we go again. That was Habsheim, which is a long way from Paris, and it has been discussed to death.
The ultra-short version:
- Idle-power low-flyby at local airshow at small aerodrome with grass strip
- Planned for 100ft
- Executed at 30-50ft
- At this height agl, the alpha-floor-protection (TOGA thrust) is inhibited
- alpha-floor-protection was permenently disabled for this flight by Captain
- Captain realised critical situation too late
- engines took their usual 6 seconds to spool up from idle
- engines ingested trees
- wings and fuselage impacted trees
- aircraft came to rest in trees, caught fire. Three people died.
It was not caused by the flight control software in any way.
See also the latest pages in the BA 038 thread.
Bernd