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Risk Management Air France Airbus crash: system pitot sensors a factor CREDIT REX Defective sensors which fed information on air speed to onboard systems were one possible factor in the... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/07/02/236750/air-france-airbus-crash-system-pitot-sensors-a-factor.htm
...caused the deaths of 259 people. Investigators of the crashed Air France Airbus Flight 447 have said that blocked pitot sensors might have been a factor in the accident, which led to the loss of 228 lives. "What we know is that these pilots... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/06/16/236447/air-france-airbus-pitot-sensor-linked-to-two-fatal-crashes.htm
...before the crash of AF447 is that the auto-pilot computer disengaged when it received unreliable information from the pitot sensors. The pilots might then have been left to fly the aircraft in a thunderstorm without the auto-pilot, and without... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/07/01/236734/airbus-crash-interim-statement-tomorrow.htm
...conflicting speed readings from onboard systems and blocked pitot sensors confused pilots in the final minutes of flight. ...there might have been a problem with the aircraft's pitot sensors. Pitot tubes feed information on air speed to the... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/06/18/236500/airbus-crash-focus-turns-to-electronic-systems.htm

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...www.avweb.com/other/peru603.html). This accident killed 189 people and occurred because the failure of the pitot sensors caused the pilots to fly too slowly, and the plane stalled. In other cases, the pitot tube ports were blocked by... http://www.controlglobal.com/articles/2009/SafetyFailure0908.html?CMP=ILC-rss
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