AF 447 Thread no. 4

[RR_NDB]

Sub heated Pitotīs in a flawed design (in respect to air speed measurements)

I am pretty certain "the aircraft is at fault" since I believe if the pitots had not failed the accident would not have happened, nor, I personally believe, would it with iced pitots with a 'conventional' FCS,...

1) Pitotīs presented intermittent failure (a fact)
2) The implemented redundancy proved to be useless in this case (a fact)
3) The implemented redundancy is flawed? (when using these AS sensors)

And if other factors (a/c Systems) are also related to the LOC we would see another, more serious, design flaw(s) and the crew as "probable victims" of a K.I.C.S. System.


C.= Complex


We are realizing how serious was the first Leak (LF).