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Company Watch - Airbus.
New York (AirGuideBusiness - Company Watch) 1/10/2010
Airbus has submitted a US patent application for an independent means of monitoring an aircraft's pressure-based airspeed measurement for errors. While the process is mainly geared at determining pitot system errors on the take-off roll, giving pilots the ability to abort a take-off before flight speeds are attained, Airbus in the 3 December filing also notes that "failure to detect these erroneous measurements can have unfortunate consequences during flight". Airspeed data has been a key focus in the unexplained crash of an Air France Airbus A330 off the coast of Brazil on 1 June. According to French investigators, 10 of the 24 automated messages transmitted by the aircraft in its final 5min of communicati...See the full content of this document
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