Highways sends word that indispensable investigations into a Qantas Airbus A330 mishap where 51 passengers were injured has concluded that it was due to the Air Data Inertial character System feeding incorrect report into the flight control system — not interposition from wayfarer



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document.write("" electronics, as Qantas had initially claimed. Quoting from the ABC report: "Authorities have blamed a faulty onboard microcomputer system for last week's mid-flight matter on a Qantas flight to Perth. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau said incorrect instruction from the faulty mainframe triggered a series of alarms and then prompted the Airbus A330's flight control radios to put the jet into a 197-meter nosedive ... The plane was cruising at 37,000 feet when a fault in the air data inertial recommendation system caused the autopilot to disconnect. But even with the autopilot off, the plane's flight control camcorders still command key controls in order to protect the jet from dangerous conditions, such as stalling, the ATSB said."

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