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Air France-447-kraschen, en modern Estonia-katastrof

Skrivet av Lennart on June 6, 2009
Posted Under: Flyg

Fly-By-Wire-cockpit

Allt fler indicier pekar nu på att Air France-447-kraschen var en katastrof som, eftersom man flög toppmoderna s..k. Fly-By-Wire-plan förr eller senare skulle komma att inträffa.

Som de flesta av dagens stora jetplan var Air Frances Airbus A330-200 alltså ett s.k. fly-by-wire-plan som styrs av mycket avancerade och därför också mycket komplicerade datasystem.

Flera nära-krascher har redan inträffat, som Richard Woods and Mathew Campbell skriver i Times Online :

Last October a Qantas A330 was flying at 37,000ft over Western Australia when it suddenly “pitched nose-down”, in the words of an official report. Henry Bishop, a passenger from Oxford, described the panic: “I feared for my life. It just fell hundreds of feet. It just fell forever and there were people flying everywhere.”

I vanliga fall är A330-200-planen, precis som Estonia, säkra, men som alla med alla komplicerade datasystem så finns det alltid svagheter i systemen som, som vi nu har bevis på, kan leda till fruktansvärda katastrofer.

Richard Woods and Mathew Campbell skriver i Times Online Air France 447: The computer crash – Times Online

At the same time, the faster the air passes over the wing, the more the centre of lift moves backwards, pushing the nose of the plane down. Too fast: you nosedive. At high altitude the gap between those two critical speeds gets narrower and narrower. That’s coffin corner – and that was one of the crises facing the crew of AF447 as the plane plunged through the thunderheads in the early hours of last Monday. It is now clear the crew, as they fought to stay airborne, no longer knew how fast their plane was travelling. According to Airbus and the accident investigators, the pilots’ instruments were giving ‘inconsistent ‘ readings of the plane’s speed.

Antonio Regalado Max Colchester och Daniel Michaels skriver i Wall Street Journal Lost Plane Was Due for Change of Speed Sensors; Two Bodies Found

PARIS “ Brazil air force officials said Saturday in Recife they had recovered two bodies and remains from Air France Flight 447 from the ocean. A radar plane discovered the remains in the early morning, and at 8:15 a.m. a helicopter sighted debris and bodies. The air force said it collected an airline seat, a leather suitcase, a backpack and other items. At 9:30 a.m., the first body was pulled from the ocean. Two bodies, both male, were recovered. Separetely Saturday, French accident investigators said the Air France jetliner that disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean on Monday was due to have its so-called Pitot tubes replaced as part of an ongoing program at the carrier to renew its planes’ speed sensors. The sensors are suspected to have played a role in problems that the Airbus A330, which was flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris with 228 people on board, encountered before disappearing and presumably crashing into the Atlantic.

 

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