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Airbus confirms software configuration error caused plane crash
An executive of Airbus Group has confirmed that the crash of an Airbus A400M military transport was caused by a faulty software configuration. Marwan Lahoud, chief marketing and strategy officer for Airbus, told the German newspaper Handelsblatt on Friday that there was a "quality issue in the final assembly" of the components of the aircraft engine. (arstechnica.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
WOW, I cannot believe they admitted fault.... Now lets see what they do to fix it.
Probably turn it upside-down and shake it...
From what I gleaned from other reports, the '400 suffered "power frozen" (atrocious syntax notwithstanding), where they ran up the engines fine, took off, slammed the throttles to idle, then when they needed power again, despite what they did, the computer didn't recognise the command to increase throttle and *kept* the engines at idle... all the way into the ground.
Hardly a "minor computer glitch" if you ask me. Forget things like "unintended acceleration" in cars, this makes a big honkin' aluminum tube sink like a brick with nothing to push it along to *stay* in the air!
I'd hate to be on the coding team who wrote *that* piece of control software...
From what I gleaned from other reports, the '400 suffered "power frozen" (atrocious syntax notwithstanding), where they ran up the engines fine, took off, slammed the throttles to idle, then when they needed power again, despite what they did, the computer didn't recognise the command to increase throttle and *kept* the engines at idle... all the way into the ground.
Hardly a "minor computer glitch" if you ask me. Forget things like "unintended acceleration" in cars, this makes a big honkin' aluminum tube sink like a brick with nothing to push it along to *stay* in the air!
I'd hate to be on the coding team who wrote *that* piece of control software...
Just a little computer glitch.
Sad days these days. Get the sales oriented CEO's out of aviation. They work their way into too many tech oriented corporations loosing track of the reality of real progress spinning tails of how great something is when profit going cheap on internals is the reality. I can see it now when somebody calls the planes software developer and gets transferred to a tech support person in India.
I always liked the Rutan model: "Don't tell me how great my airplane is; tell me what's wrong with it so I can make it better."
How many Airbus accidents have occurred because of faulty computer input or the inability of the pilot to override it?