Flt 587-Airbus vs American Airlines

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"Keith Willshaw" wrote:

"Ron Parsons" wrote in message
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Not exactly. Boeing has had hardover problems in the past, AA21 into
Jamaca Bay back in the late '50s for example and the various 737
incidents.

The Airbus has a totally different problem which only the pilots are
willing to speak about. The fleet, including the AA587 aircraft has a
history of uncommanded rudder fluctuations where the rudder slams back
and forth between the stops so rapidly that the DFR can't record it.


This sounds extremely dubious, the DFR can record events that take less
than a millisecond, the rudder is much to massive to move in that time.

Perhaps then my friends who fly them know less than you.



Airbus won't admit it might be a design flaw, AAL won't consider it
might be improper maintainance.

The NWA pilots were screaming their heads off about the wierd stuff that
the FBW baby busses were doing, but the FAA turned a deaf ear.


The A-300 isnt a FBW aircraft it uses conventional control systems.

I was writing of two separate matters where the common thread was the
attitude of AI.

Sorry to have confused you.

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Ron