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Originally Posted by HardDrive View Post
When flt 447 crashed over the Atlantic, I was blown away when it was revealed how the flight control systems on an Airbus deal with conflicting inputs. It averages out the inputs without informing the pilots that they are taking opposite actions. Insane.
The stall warning was going off until they were in such a deep stall that the computer thought the readings were erroneous. Most definitely pilot error/lack of training in this case. Ironically they were in alternate law which gives the pilots more control similar to a Boeing aircraft.
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