Flight 587
Dec 18, 2001 | 12:51 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">According to Marshall, Flight 587, an Airbus A300, used a modern "fly-by-wire computer system and could fly quite easily with complete loss of the vertical fin and rudder.</font>
This same article was discussed, and debunked, on USaviation.com:
AA-587
Dec 18, 2001 | 11:57 pm
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Fly-by-wire doesn't mean the plane is suspended by a wire. All the computers in the world can't fly a plane that's missing wings, engines, vertical stabalizers, fins, etc..
Next he's going to say, "the plane was equipped with fully flat sleeper-seats in first class, thus the aircraft could fly over 500 miles per hour.
What an idiot.
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Next he's going to say, "the plane was equipped with fully flat sleeper-seats in first class, thus the aircraft could fly over 500 miles per hour.
What an idiot.
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