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Old 3rd Jun 2010, 13:16
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geoff sutherland
 
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The second BEA interim report into AF447, (p62-67), identified 32 other incidents caused by or related to freezing of pitots on A330-A340 and also stated that the test/certification regime (JAR25) for those pitots was for a maximum altitude of 30,000ft.
Why is it that one of the most heavily regulated industries in the world allows almost all of its commercial operations to be conducted using a critical speed sensing technology that is neither tested nor certified for critical icing factors at the very altitude that almost all of their commercial flights are conducted.
Maybe they should limit all flights to within the certified envelope (30,000ft) and wait for the business out-cry to put funds into solving the problem.
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