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Old 2nd Oct 2010, 05:27
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Another Airbus Computer Fright

This time an A320 on approach to Mackay, Queensland, Australia on 20 September.
During descent, the crew received multiple ECAM messages, the autopilot and auto thrust disengaged and primary flight displays including altitude and airspeed data were lost from the normal sources but were available from the standby system.
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What is it with you anti-airbus brigade? This sounds like the loss of one or a number of electrical busses resulting in the loss of a number of systems. It could just have easily been a boeing, and the results would have been very similar.

The aircraft remained in control, the standby systems operated as designed and the flight ended safely, just as it would have in a boeing.

A high workload for the crew but it sounds like they handled it well.

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the autopilot and auto thrust disengaged

OMG!!!! you mean the pilots actually had to control the aircraft in all three axis manually and at the same time use the thrust levers?????
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"What is it with you anti-airbus brigade? This sounds like the loss of one or a number of electrical busses resulting in the loss of a number of systems. It could just have easily been a boeing, and the results would have been very similar."

Except that apparently it wasn't a Boeing...another AB escapade.
Rest assured there will be a Boeing soon that will lose the list of helpful aids listed in the thread opener......but probably there will be about a dozen
AB occurances in the meantime
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@ HotPete
If you do copy paste from the ATSB, do it completely:
Originally Posted by NTSB
During descent, the crew received multiple ECAM messages, the autopilot and auto thrust disengaged and primary flight displays including altitude and airspeed data were lost from the normal sources but were available from the standby system. The data systems recovered and the crew continued the approach. The investigation is continuing.
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AO-2010-070
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and where is the fright ??
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Originally Posted by HeadingSouth
and where is the fright ??
... in Pete´s head
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and where is the fright ??
It randed safrery ! Why you no rissen ? Sirry irriot.
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ADC/ADIRU (and what ever airbus call them) failures are becoming the" Eng failures of the 1950s for the industry.

The more they happen the more well get paid to keep them flyin ...thankyou Airbus...
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Gold!!!!!
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