Why was Airbus not admonished for their flight control laws fighting Sully's pitch up flare commands
Not a unique event. A-320-214, EC-HKJ, Bilbao Airport, 7 February 2001
The aeroplane did not respond to the pilots’ commands on the controls to pitch up the aircraft and to reduce the vertical speed on the flare, causing the aircraft to impact against the threshold of the runway in a slight nose-down attitude.
The cause of the accident was the activation of the angle of attack protection system which, under a particular combination of vertical gusts and windshear and the simultaneous actions of both crew members on the sidesticks not accounted for in the design, prevented the aeroplane from pitching up and flaring during the landing.
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