Originally Posted by
number_6
Several Airbus crashes were directly due to unexpected airplane behaviour when switching flight laws unexpectedly -- but these were some years ago and Airbus spent a lot of effort in putting the fly into fly by wire. Good to hear that the A380 has such good behaviour. Even the chief test pilot at Airbus died in a CFIT crash when testing exactly what you described (in that case reversion to alternate law during landing; his attempted go around, a planned exercise, sadly wound up being below runway height).
What crashes were they?
Your understanding of the A330 test crash is incorrect.
The most famous of the Airbus incidents involving the automatics were A300s, so FBW was not involved. In both of those cases, the pilots attempted to manually fly the aircraft in a go around, without disconnecting the autopilot.
A lot of blood has been shed in perfecting that flight control software.
Who said it was perfect?