Update Flight Control Systems
We should not have waited for the Air France Flight 447 crash to suspect something might be fundamentally wrong with the exclusive dependency on air speed indication (ASI) by the auto-pilot (AP)/flight director (FD) system. On Feb. 6, 1996, a Birgenair Boeing 757-225 crashed while climbing after...
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