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In plane with fly by wire control , meaning the control inputs to control surfaces are electronic.

Instead of cables and hydraulics, electric issues are very very big problems! controls can be lost. They have many redundancies to safe guard these unless they had a catastrophic event of some type.


Sounds like the planes control telemetry was sent to the manufacture, Airbus remotely during the problem. Location information however maybe difficult to ID.
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