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Skybird · 11-15-10, 07:52 AM

I don't know what you are after, TarJak. I just researched via Google a bit, on the frequency of technical defects and malfunctions being so serious that they damage or crash a plane or force the plane to abandon the flightplan and land for safety concerns. 4 such incidents within just some days with just one carrier is anything but normal, but statistically is very unnormal. I do not mean the kind of "defects" that you have on every flight in the highly digitised computer environment of modern cockpits (German pilot's association once said that their investigations showed that per Atlantic flight a mean of 200 or 300 computer errrors happen per plane, due to the many circuits and CPUs interfering with each other, or software having "microscopic bugs", most of these errors are such that they do not even get recognised by the pilots (I wonder how many passangers would still board a plane if they knew this

).

I still think Qantas simply has hit a pit full of bad luck, but the series they have had now is anything but routine, or "normal".

BTW, huge passenger planes being redirected or aborting their flight over technical issues make a smaller or bigger appearance in the news in Germany almost every time it happens.

11-15-10, 07:52 AM	#58
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,717 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	I don't know what you are after, TarJak. I just researched via Google a bit, on the frequency of technical defects and malfunctions being so serious that they damage or crash a plane or force the plane to abandon the flightplan and land for safety concerns. 4 such incidents within just some days with just one carrier is anything but normal, but statistically is very unnormal. I do not mean the kind of "defects" that you have on every flight in the highly digitised computer environment of modern cockpits (German pilot's association once said that their investigations showed that per Atlantic flight a mean of 200 or 300 computer errrors happen per plane, due to the many circuits and CPUs interfering with each other, or software having "microscopic bugs", most of these errors are such that they do not even get recognised by the pilots (I wonder how many passangers would still board a plane if they knew this ). I still think Qantas simply has hit a pit full of bad luck, but the series they have had now is anything but routine, or "normal". BTW, huge passenger planes being redirected or aborting their flight over technical issues make a smaller or bigger appearance in the news in Germany almost every time it happens. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.