Kev,

The most famous of all, the Airbus "low pass" at the French air show,
when the FADEC throttles refused to power up (thinking the plane was
landing)


Oh? Please quote the passage from the accident report that says this.
I'd be really interested. All I know is the passage where it losely
says: The pilot actively and consciously set up the system to
circumvent all the safeguards built into it to make the plane do the
stupid unapproved show-off-maneuver (sp?) instead of preventing an
accident like this as it was designed to. And after doing that, WTF did
he expect?

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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)