A320 training flight crashes into sea off France

[TangoWhiskey]

My wife just showed me a CNN alert: an A320 with seven on board crashed into the Mediterranean on a training or test flight--debris has been found.

Avweb says it was a post-maintenance flight on an Air New Zealand plane:

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/airbus_air_new_zealand_crash_mediterranean_199305-1.html

 

[ScottM]

The only possible reasons for this crash are:

• No flght plan filled
• Composite construction
• Software
• Nose wheel or other gear problems
• or anything lese that will make Greg's head explode at that the thought

Did I cover all the hot topics from the red board?

 

[Greg Bockelman]

Did I cover all the hot topics from the red board?

You missed one, although I will forgive you for it because it was in another thread.

The co-pilot was working for free and the captain had done so in the past.

 

[TMetzinger]

I believe the airplane had just come off lease from a German airline. Probably they hadn't reset the crew warning system from German:
Achtung!, Achtung! Ziehen Sie hoch, bevor Sie naß erhalten

To New Zealand:
G'day! Crikey, if you don't raise the nose, we'll all be in for a splash, fair dinkum?

 

[TangoWhiskey]

Add "Paint - Dry, not covering sensor ports" to your checklist:

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/NewPaintProbedInA320Crash_199315-1.html

 

[Trapper John]

Add "Paint - Dry, not covering sensor ports" to your checklist:

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/NewPaintProbedInA320Crash_199315-1.html

Yeah, I saw that too, and my first thought was shouldn't there be some kind of self-test for the sensors on start-up? I can see where mis-applied paint might screw something up, but so could a mud dauber, smashed bug, little bit of ice, etc.


Trapper John

 

[rottydaddy]

Yeah, I saw that too, and my first thought was shouldn't there be some kind of self-test for the sensors on start-up? I can see where mis-applied paint might screw something up, but so could a mud dauber, smashed bug, little bit of ice, etc.


Trapper John

Or tape applied prior to cleaning the aircraft:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AeroPeru_Flight_603

A thorough walkaround of an airliner is a big job, but it's gotta be done.