Reply to post: Re: "forcing the nose down against the pilot's mistaken reaction to a stall"

Ethiopian Airlines boss confirms suspect flight software was in use as Boeing 737 Max crashed

James Anderson

Re: "forcing the nose down against the pilot's mistaken reaction to a stall"

Early (prototype) Airbuses had a similar problem.

If the software detected wheels down and low altitude it went into labour saving mode and did an automatic landing.

A test pilot was showing off the low speed handling at the 1988 Paris Airshow when the software took over and did a perfect landing in some nearby forestry.

This feature never made it to production and avionics engineers have been very cautious about automatic takeover of control ever since. (obviously the message did not get through to Boeing).

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