Originally Posted by
Plato90s
Not true - AoA sensor failures is a known issue including the 2008 Airbus crash
Any sensor failure should be an identifiable issue, but given aircraft reliability requirements they aren't likely to show up during flight testing unless forced. Which is why I pointed out that it would be identified as a failure mode by analysis and then flight tested (as jrl767 pointed out, by pulling a breaker, though it would also be a good idea to insert a fake sensor in the circuit so a range of anomalous values could be forced)