Wow, that Airbus that lost all hydraulics because of a wing hit is scary!!!
I would've guessed there would be either some sort of redundancy in the hydraulics or a mechanism to prevent complete loss due to a single point failure. What's up with that?
Is the above weakness in other manufacturer's aircraft too?
I seem to recall a complete hydraulic failure happening back in the 80's or 70's. I think it was a DC-10? where the tail engine failed causing complete hydraulic loss forcing the pilots to throttle steer. Absolutely amazing. One would hope that the industry learned a lesson from this and applied solutions to future made aircraft?
Similarly, what ever happened with the Airbus which went down in the ocean off of South America? Did they ever conclude that the loss of the air-speed indicator(s) caused it? If so have they taken corrective action? If so that is scary too.