I make my living as an air safety investigator for a major US aerospace firm. I have been in aviation as a profession for over 30 years.
It always amuses me how many "experts" there are around here in the immediate aftermath of such a horrific mishap.
However, I will agree that there appears to be a troubling pattern emerging from these Airbus-aircraft-falling-from-altitude mishaps that seem to be occurring with some regularity. As such, I will currently only ride on those aircraft manufactured by my employer (which shall remain nameless). ;-)
I read about aviation. I am not an expert by any stretch. It seems that Airbus’s fly by wire system is an exclusive system and that some boeings have some fly by wire but can revert to a physical link between the controls and the control surfaces.
Im sure there is more to it than that.
this one didn’t fall out of the sky, it flew into the ground in a “controlled descent into terrain”. People on the ground who saw the plane said nothing appeared abnormal except the altitude, and there were noises like “fighter jet” ... engine surges? was the computer controlling the plane?
It sure sounds like cabin depressurization incapacitated the crew, and hopefully the passenger too. Something happened as soon as it reached 38K cruising altitude- what does that clue imply? Someone left a wrench in the nose gear compartment or punched a hole in the fuselage that cause a leak? What is the nationality and skill of the ground crews at Barcelona? Going by the report on UK DailyMail which are more detailed but no expert here
Kind of like that small rash of 737s that would turn upside down and dive in from altitude. It appears that Boeing figured out what was going on and quietly fixed that problem, with the government and airlines joining in the coverup.
I guess you also have to very careful flying these days. Seeing that every airline in the US has mixed fleets (those evil airlines, buying crap airplanes not made in WA). Your B737, is easily swapped out for a A320.
You can’t even fly on the express partners either, because they don’t fly Boeings. Bombardier and Embraer have that market sewed up.