Originally Posted by AutoAbort
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An examination of the US confidential aviation safety reporting system (ASRS) shows that, since 2000, 55 take-offs have been carried out unintentionally in the USA without take-off configuration having been set ...
In that perspective, I must say Airbus developed an excellent concept to avoid that kind of event and I would not think any of these 55 cases came from an NG Airbus ... (?)