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Old 24th Aug 2011, 18:19
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>(Limiting body angle below 50 ft)
>>Nothing in that direction in the manuals but why not
>>conceive that Airbus may have been tempted as well
>>to design such protection ...

It was mentioned in the investigation into the Paris airshow A320 crash.

One of the many reasons for this A320 ploughing into the trees was that when they got to 70 or 50 ft, the aircraft pitched down by a couple of degrees to prevent a tail-strike on 'landing'. Good idea if the aircraft was over a runway at the time, but this actually had the effect of pitching the aircraft ever closer to the trees.


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