Airplane Nose Dives By Itself / Qantas Flight 72
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The Cosmic Ray Explanation
There was ai ation in the algorithm used by the a three 30 flight control primary computers for processing angle of attack data. This limitation meant that, in a very specific situation, multiple spikes from only one of the three air data inertial reference units could result in a nose down elevator command. A couple of months after this, on the 20 seventh of december, two thousand eight quanus flight 71, flying from perth to singapore, hat the exact same thing happened to it. That crew remembered this incident we're talking about, and they were able to counteract it and continue their flight just fine. Counteract it like isn't like to swap the adters. Could have
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