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To: Yo-Yo

AF447 was 10 years ago. there are literally thousands upon thousands of these things in operation every hour of every day; if it was a defective design, planes would be crashing twice a day.

it’s going to turn out to be a maintenance issue. this device gave ample warning it was about to go out, and the the discount airline discounted them all.


5 posted on 11/05/2018 7:00:26 AM PST by JohnBrowdie
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To: JohnBrowdie

In the case of AF447 it was more a case of bad piloting.


8 posted on 11/05/2018 7:04:52 AM PST by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: JohnBrowdie
AF447 was 10 years ago. there are literally thousands upon thousands of these things in operation every hour of every day; if it was a defective design, planes would be crashing twice a day.

Airbus had a very aggressive pitot tube replacement program after AF447.

There was only one crash, AF447, but many reports of erratic air speed indications in A330/A340 aircraft.

We don't know yet if there have been any other reports of erratic airspeed indications on other B737 Max aircraft.

15 posted on 11/05/2018 7:25:15 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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