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Incident: Airbus A330 at Taipei, primary computers failed on touchdown (2020) | Hacker News

September 6, 2021
Source: ycombinator.com ycombinator.com
News Snapshot:
For everyone commenting about different hardware failure modes and possible solutions. Take a look at the airbus « flight control laws » such as https://apstraining.com/wp-content/uploads/FCS-Airbus-Quick-... it governs what happens to flight controls and what protections are available in different scenarios. In this case the system worked, it crashed and reverted to direct law providing manual braking control. Off topic but I found this very interesting « The deceleration performance of the occurrence flight between 6,600 feet and 7,300 feet from the threshold of runway 10 deteriorated. It may be due to paint marking and rubber deposit on the touchdown zone...
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