Crash of AW609 In Italy Blamed On Flight Control System

Credit: AW609
ISTANBUL—Italian investigators probing the fatal crash of the second prototype (AC2) AW609 commercial tiltrotor have concluded that faulty logic within the aircraft’s flight control system ultimately led to an inflight fire and subsequent breakup. In its final report into the Oct. 30, 2015 crash in...

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