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Center Of Gravity Concerns Lead To Lufthansa Pulling Last Economy Row On A320neo
German national flag carrier Lufthansa has stopped selling the last row of seats in its Airbus A320neos due to concerns over the aircraft’s center-of-gravity limitations. (simpleflying.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
OMG you mean you cant cram an extra 20 seats on an plane and make all that money! Maybe the manufacturer already did the numbers or it would have come that way.
Cargo before people I presume?
Wouldn’t you?
Due to an EASA directive
The take away here is that the Airbus 321NEO has a an MCAS like system much like the MAX for quite similar issues...if not almost identical issues. The difference is that Airbus' software works and Boeing' didnt. That said....if this were a Boeing aircraft...the world would be screaming at the top of it's collective lungs that the airframe is inherently unstable, unsafe, and not airworthy. But it's Airbus, so people just joke about it...and shrug it off as a non-issue. Blocking off the last row of seats due to center of gravity concerns is no laughing matter.
Aren’t you missing a few crashes and deaths in your comparison?
The two crashes were due to the flawed MCAS software system...and had nothing to do with the airframe's integrity or stability. There but for the grace of the God goes Airbus. Boeing crapped the bed with their flawed software. Airbus is now crapping their pants because they have very similar flight characteristic issues with the NEO as Boeing has with the MAX. And these issues were not properly addressed during airframe certification apparently. Airbus is thanking its lucky stars that Boeing crapped the bed first....and that they can learn from that. Again...this is a fairly serious issue. Does this make the A321NEO inherently unstable? No l, it isn't in my book. If we apply the MAX rule of popular commentary and opinion, then Yes. I wouldn't treat this matter lightly.
I hate to break it to you, but Boeing didn't write the software. They bought the avionics that had already been certified by the FAA as airworthy. With that said, Boeing designed their plane around promises made by the companies who built it and it flailed. Boeing being the manufacturer will be held liable because they built the Airplane, while in reality it's the avionics manufacturer that should be held to the fire not Boeing.
First you say Airbus's version of MCAS works.. Now you say Airbus is crapping their pants.. Are you just here to get attention ? Pretending you know something but you don't ?