An Airbus A320 of the airline Air Asia, with 162 passengers on board, He took off from Surabaya airport in December 2014 to Singapore. Ten minutes after entering cruise speed, the cabin gave an error message Auto flt rud trv glue sewsa failure in the limitation system. Moments later crashed into the Java Sea.
According to the media Technology & economythe problem was not critical and was solved within a few minutes. Airbus brand aircraft have integrated into their system, an ECAM screen, which incorporates instructions on how to act in case of emergency.
However, eight minutes later, the ECAM issued a new fault report for the same problem: the pilots were turned off again. Four minutes later, it happened again. “It was a mechanical failure”.
According to the disseminated information, a few days before, the commander had flown on the same aircraft and received the report before taking off. At that time, “the engineering services removed the fuses of the computers and then relocated them.” Now the crew should do the same, but from the air.
In this way, one of the pilots “withdrew and connected the fuses again,” however, the screens did not turn on again. The consequences: automatic power control went out and the plane began to bow to the left.
“The machine control system changed the normal law mode to the mode of alternative law, which meant that many functions that protect against excessively violent management maneuvers went out,” says the publication.
In statements collected by the environment, the investigators revealed that the development of the situation “He took the co -pilot”. His first reaction was to pull joystick back violently and then to the right even more violently.
Finally, at an altitude of about 11,730 m, and with an inclination of 104º to the left, the plane began to fall. “It crashed at high vertical speed with the Java Sea for four minutes after the autopilot went out,” concludes the publication. The aircraft was “completely destroyed” and the 162 passengers died on the spot.
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