Le Bourget 2009: crisis casts pall at Paris air show

IN THE FIELD: The world's biggest air show opens in Paris on Monday amid tense times for global aviation due to the financial crisis and the crash of Air France flight 447, an A330 model. Aircraft maker Airbus warned of a possible fall in its orders this year.

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[RuudBossink]

I' ve been there and it was so fucking nice

[CRsBeem]

Clearly, NO airplane should be knowingly flown into a tropical convergence anvil, but I do suspect that mechanical backups could be of help when the hail hits the fan!

[LTF85199]

Thanks for your reply I didn't realize i was conversing with a professional. great, I am a student in aerospace industry.

[LTF85199]

There has been a few others incidents on 330s quoted by CNN, where the autopilot + aircraft control system computer partially failed due to glitch in signals forcing the aircraft into a gradual dive and the pilots struggled to finally regain control. Wonder if they fully fixed that all service aircrafts.computer are very sensitive if not thoroughly programmed right, a single bite of unexpected data could crash it. That is why I am nervous about computer flying the plane with a lot of inertia.

[LTF85199]

After that 330 crash, will airlines reconsider buying a 100% fly by wire control system? And revisit its reliability under partial system failure.