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To: Attila_the_Hun
ABC is now reporting the aircraft was an Airbus 300.
95 posted on 11/12/2001 5:50:08 AM PST by Mushinronshasan
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To: Mushinronshasan
FOX reporting that FAA says Airbus 300 was leaving JFK on the way to Santa Domingo.
142 posted on 11/12/2001 5:55:27 AM PST by itsinthebag
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To: Mushinronshasan
I am white-knuckle city any time I am on one of those fly-by-wire Airbus planes.

Call me paranoid, but I have no trust in fly-by-wire technology. I'd feel a lot safer if the pilots had a mechanical connection to the control surfaces.

Maybe I'd be more trusting if I wasn't a software developer. The idea of a subtle bug, or a tiny bit of oxide dirtying a contact to a memory card, or some similar "minor" glitch standing between the pilot and the wings just gives me the shivers.

254 posted on 11/12/2001 6:13:01 AM PST by Don Joe
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