Originally Posted by Unhooked
I recall hearing about an incident with a A340 out of MRU where the AOA vane was damaged in the stand and went unnoticed or unreported. After take-off the aircraft was receiving erroneous AOA info and the more the PF attempted to increase pitch the more progressively the flight computers lowered the nose as the false AOA data was being received. I think the fast thinking commander switched off some of the PRIM's & SEC's (primary and secondary flight computers) and managed to return in direct law.
Any official report on this ?
A single damaged AoA probe is not supposed to do that ... ?
In the meantime it is true that a single dysfunctional ADIRU did the mess it did on QF72 !