| Re: Qantas blast damaged landing systems |
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Group: aus.aviation · Group Profile
Author: Sylvia ElseSylvia Else Date: Jul 30, 2008 17:23
Snapper wrote:
> Sylvia Else wrote...
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>> for the report into a still unexplained incident from 2005 in which both
>> the captain's and the co-pilot's primary flight displays and navigation
>> displays failed. Then tell me that it couldn't happen to the flight
>> control system on an FBW aircraft.
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> Well, you'd hope that it wouldn't.
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> I work with plant that's "fly by wire", using DCS equipment. It has redundancies
> built in so if one component fails there is still control of critical systems.
> Using multiple comms loops, dual power supplies, UPS, etc. helps provide
> redundancies. I would have to assume that an aircraft is even more secure than
> this.
They do - yet gremlins still seem to exist. The A319 report (or one of
the earlier bulletings about it - can't remember) mentioned five other
unexplained instances where both captain and co-pilots systems have failed.
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> Maybe the circuit breakers that supply the various bits of gear that failed on
> JB tripped due to cable faults, or something else and wouldn't reset.
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> Hopefully the investigation will reveal this and we can have a read of it when
> they've finished.
I'm sure the investigators will look into it, and probably come up with
a reason, and presumably some recommendations.
Sylvia.
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