Accident investigators think icing of Pitot tubes used to determine aircraft air speed might have caused the crash of Air France flight 447 on 31 May 2009. Although journalists and others have talked ...
One pitot/static failure mode, involves a blocked pitot tube but an open drain hole. In this scenario, the airspeed indicator shows zero, since the rest of the system is open to static pressure. As ...
Two fatal crashes of passenger aircraft show that it is dangerous for pilots to have conflicting information and warnings in the cockpit. The recovered black boxes from two computerized commercial ...
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