[SystemSafety] airplane automation

[Robert P. Schaefer]

FYI - not sure if this hasn’t been posted before..


The Sydney Morning Herald
May 12, 2017


The untold story of QF72: What happens when 'psycho' automation leaves pilots powerless?  Matt O'Sullivan

http://www.smh.com.au/good-weekend/the-untold-story-of-qf72-what-happens-when-psycho-automation-leaves-pilots-powerless-20170510-gw26ae.html


"Three years after the near-disaster, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau issues a final report. It finds incorrect data on measures such as airspeed and angle of attack (a critical parameter used to control an aircraft's pitch) was sent by one of the A330's three air-data computers – each of which has its own sensors on the fuselage – to other systems on the plane. One of the three flight control primary computers then reacted to the angle-of-attack data by commanding the plane to nosedive."

bob s.
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