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Old 14th July 2009 | 07:02
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augustusjeremy
 
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IRUs

You have lost all three pitot tube inputs leading to all three IRU's declaring sick.
Apologies If I am wrong, but pitot tubes provide ADR data, not Inertial Reference Data.

Unless a very strange comparison algorithm validates Inertial Data from Air Data - and not just the opposed - blocked pitot tubes cannot generate IR faults by themselves.

There is no clear indication of loss of all IRUs in the AF447 case.
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