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Old 4th Jul 2009, 18:15
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A310/A300 crews have known about AP behavior in a go-around via Blue pages since the China Airlines go-around accident in Tokyo back in the 90s.
I don't think Dynasty crashed a 'bus in Narita in the 90's. They crashed A300-600R's at Nagoya in 1994 and Taipei in 1998. Both crashes involved botched go arounds, fighting the autopilot with an abrupt pitchup and stall after the autopilot had trimmed the stab noseup. After the TPE crash, China Airlines' A300 fleet became mostly an expat flight crew operation, a couple of friends ended up there.

The A310/A300 aircraft don't pull the power back to maintain 2000 fpm on a go around like the modern Boeings, instead, they go whole hog with TOGA power. Also, their autothrottles are more agressive in my experience giving a really quick pitch up on a two engine go around, especially on the A310 which is overpowered and short coupled compared to the A306.

Gulf Air crashed an A320 at Bahrain in 2000 after a go around attempt, it is thought that the rapid power change and pitch up without visual references induced a somatogravic illusion in the pilot flying, causing him to think he needed to lower the nose, the plane flew into the water.
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