Comments on: Airbus A330 Unsafe to Fly http://www.jebriggs.com/blog/2009/06/airbus-a330-unsafe-to-fly/ Observations by a Programmer of Silicon Valley and Beyond Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:01:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jim Reilly http://www.jebriggs.com/blog/2009/06/airbus-a330-unsafe-to-fly/comment-page-1/#comment-27186 Jim Reilly Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:32:37 +0000 http://www.jebriggs.com/blog/?p=885#comment-27186 The Airbus, in my opinion, should never have been certified. It is not a very well-kept secret that one of the Airbus's flown by Jetblue is called "Satan's Kitten" by the pilots, because the computer has almost caused a fatal incident on at least three flights. The Airbus is not structurally safe. To lighten weight the major parts of the airframe have been diminished. The computer avoids stress by restricting angle of bank and movement of the controls. When the structures are stressed they tend to disintegrate as in the case of the Airbus that lost it's tail when leaving Kennedy. Because the parts are assembled in many countries quality control is lacking. The wiring harnesses on different production runs have the same color in the harness leading to a different electrical connection. The computer system, without which the aircraft cannot fly, is not hardened. It can be completely shut down by an electromagnetic pulse from a terrorist device and it takes eight minutes for the computer to reboot, during which time the pilot has no control of the flight surfaces. If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going. The Airbus, in my opinion, should never have been certified. It is not a very well-kept secret that one of the Airbus’s flown by Jetblue is called “Satan’s Kitten” by the pilots, because the computer has almost caused a fatal incident on at least three flights. The Airbus is not structurally safe. To lighten weight the major parts of the airframe have been diminished. The computer avoids stress by restricting angle of bank and movement of the controls. When the structures are stressed they tend to disintegrate as in the case of the Airbus that lost it’s tail when leaving Kennedy. Because the parts are assembled in many countries quality control is lacking. The wiring harnesses on different production runs have the same color in the harness leading to a different electrical connection. The computer system, without which the aircraft cannot fly, is not hardened. It can be completely shut down by an electromagnetic pulse from a terrorist device and it takes eight minutes for the computer to reboot, during which time the pilot has no control of the flight surfaces.

If it ain’t Boeing, I ain’t going.

]]> By: Daniel http://www.jebriggs.com/blog/2009/06/airbus-a330-unsafe-to-fly/comment-page-1/#comment-26576 Daniel Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:20:07 +0000 http://www.jebriggs.com/blog/?p=885#comment-26576 Since the airbus crash in long island in 2001 i have stayed away from flying the airbus. i am not an engineer or programmer but i can recognize a faultyproduct when i see one. Since the airbus crash in long island in 2001 i have stayed away from flying
the airbus. i am not an engineer or programmer but i can recognize a faultyproduct when i see one.

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