Originally Posted by
heavy.airbourne
...until crash - see XL.
I'm pretty sure the XL (Perpignan) A320 went into Direct Law before it crashed.
Originally Posted by
Chris Scott
]Inconveniently, neither of the accidents you mention were caused by icing of a heated pitot probe, as Lyman and Turbine_D have pointed out.
As I said, I wasn't making a direct comparison in terms of the scenario, I was simply enumerating incidents and accidents with blocked pitot probes as a central factor.
LIke them, I wonder if the location of the probes needs to be reviewed, and if the slimmer nose of the A320 may be a factor.
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It seemed to me that this might be a recipe for (roughly) simultaneous ice accretion of numbers 1 & 2.
Possibly - but nevertheless I don't believe there has been a UAS incident on an A330 or A340 recently - specifically since the Thales model pitot probes were phased out.