Toyota UA-LAC

[Brett Dikeman]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Scruggs Family <gjkzscruggs at verizon.net> wrote:

> Four... Comments on the Airbus flight control system just begin to describe
> the complexity of the software of those systems.  Not well known is that
> Sullenberger's Hudson River landing, about a year ago, was the result of
> Airbus' software.

It never ceases to amaze me what some uneducated, uninformed idiot on
a mailing list will claim.

The engines didn't "throttle down"- they were completely destroyed.
Passengers described bangs, flames, and then "silence from the
engines" and an odor of unburned fuel:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549#Take_off_and_bird_strike


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-warren/ithis-week-in-magazinesi_b_209536.html

...note the section which describes the typical events inside a jet
engine when a foreign object causes blades to break.  Also note the
section which describes how "big" bird tests are done with 8lb
farm-raised chickens, the strikes involved +12lb Canada Geese, and
engineers have complained that farm-raised birds don't accurately test
the damage caused by wild birds.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549#Accident_investigation

...specifically the third paragraph, which states that the NTSB
confirms the birds were Canada Geese and were much larger than the
engines were designed to tolerate ingestion of.  They're only expected
to keep the blades of the fan inside the engine.

The incident shares absolutely NOTHING in common with the Paris
airshow crash, which was entirely software-caused.

-B