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Old 10th May 2003, 02:00
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I think the A330 crash during test at Toulouse happened partly because the engine was simulated failed after the go-around was initiated and because of the low level-off platform altitiude.

I understand that the high rate of climb caused the A330 to enter ALT* mode (alt acquire for Boeing types), and in that mode the autopilot flies a programmed parabola to level off. The problem was that the thrust loss from the simulated failure meant that the speed decayed to the point of stall and the crash resulted with loss of all on board.
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