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To: patton
I am unsure who was in charge during the stall - the computer, or the doomed pilots?

On Airbus the computer is ALWAYS in control. The pilot inputs are merely suggestions for the 'puter.

51 posted on 07/31/2011 10:35:46 AM PDT by null and void (Day 920. When your only tools are a Hammer & Sickle, everything looks like a Capitalist...)
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To: null and void

Yet, not of of these articles mentions “Systemic failure of software caused the deaths of ...”

Funny how they avoid that. Might affect Airbus sales or something.


55 posted on 07/31/2011 10:40:26 AM PDT by patton (I am sure that I have done dumber things in my life, but at the moment, I am unable to recall them.)
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