Airplane Nose Dives By Itself / Qantas Flight 72
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Flight Control Primary Computers Detect Angle of Attack Data, So It's Trying to Pitch the Plane Down
The flight control primary computers were designed to command a down if they detect that the aircraft's angle of attack was too high. Aderu one started out putting spikes in angle of attack data. And spikes were present at the time of both pitch downs. So adere ones spitting out bad data, this bad angle of attackData, the flight catro primary computer seeing it. It's not flagged as invalid, so it thinks it's valid data. So it triggers the safety to pitch the plane down - which is what they're trying to fight here.
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