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Airbus A320, Jet in Tuesday’s Germanwings Crash, Has Strong Safety Record
The Airbus A320, the type of plane that was involved in Tuesday’s crash in the French Alps, is flown by every major U.S. airline and has a strong safety record. More than 6,000 A320 family jets – which include the A319 and the A321 – are in service across the globe.... (www.frequentbusinesstraveler.com) 更多...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Good safety record, until it flies, is that not true of any airplane. B-747 fuel tank explosion, that indicates a safety problem, not pilots or others who caused an accident due to improper procedures. Pretty hard to blame the acrft when human error is involved, so much for safety records.
I'm no pilot, just a frequent business flyer - but weren't there some of the same Airbus "fly-by-wire" grumblings after AA587, Airbus 300 in Nov 2011 ?
Yes, but in that case, the computers did not limit his movements. The limits are based on the speed, but 587 was also in severe wake turbulence and the copilot was fighting it aggressively with opposite inputs which created more than double the load on the surfaces as they were supposed to... There was a letter from Airbus that covered this prior to the accident, but AA never got it to their flight crews. Training was blamed on this one, not the plane.
You must take into account that not crashed the plane, but the pilot deliberately brought the aircraft to crash. One should not quick to judge aircraft , regardless of whether Airbus or Boeing , if you do not know the background. This points to a lack of judgment !
By the magic of statistics, Airbus planes such as A320 and A330 might be safe planes but if you study their accident records, you are afraid to fly them, though ofen no choice. The fatal defects of Airbus planes are the fact that stupid computers without any brain command those planes. Someone calls A320 Nanny plane, pilots' roles are reduced to a nanny, producing many many inexperienced pilots, leading many accidents or near accidents. Just remember 2 famous ones: A320 ended in East River in NYC in which the vary capable pilot saved all passengers, who later said, He liked A320 before the accident but hates it after the accident, as it became very difficult to control the plane as the computer tried to overtake pilots' ooperations, and another exampleis A330 ended in the bottom of the Atlatic Ocean after flying from Brazil, as the pilots not well trained could not control the plane while arguing nose up or nose down. One of the main sales points is to emphasize less pilot training time compared with Boeing planes. Actually when ANA introduced 787, ANA retrained their 777 pilots over 5 weeks, Airbus wanted to advertise that with Airbus, much less training time but it dd not do so. The safest plane is Boeing 777 with no loss of life attributable to the design of 777. MH17 was shot done by Ukranian fight planes and there is one missing probably due to suicidal pilots.
Don't fly the Airbus family of jets but what I do fly has an Emergency Decent Mode built into the flight management system. In case of a pressurization failure it will cause the jet to descend as fast as possible (without exceeding design limits) to a preset altitude of 10000 Ft and then cruise at 250 Kts until the crew can reestablish control of the aircraft. If the A320 has a similar system the preset altitude could have been below to tops of the mountains and not giving the crew a chance to regain control and then flew into a mountain. (I'm assuming the crew was incapacitated)
Here I go again, broadcasting my ignorance, but if you were above mountains over 10,000', thatEmergency Decent Mode doesn't sound like it would have a good outcome. Or might you have enough time steer the plane to get away from the peaks?
It doesn't matter in the case of the Germanwings aircraft disaster whether you had an Emergency Descent Mode or not even though the Flight management System actually did work fine to control the rate of descent which prevented an overspeed. The flight system can only warn the pilot of impending danger but cannot fly the plane for him nor would I want it to as that can have its own set of dangers. Charts and competent piloting easily negotiates mountains, buildings and other aircraft using a very reliable set of protocols and procedures. All that being said, if the pilot chooses to ignore warnings, he can find a number of scenarios to create a disaster that will totally destroy the aircraft and kill all souls on board and even do that at very low altitudes and relatively low speeds.