Airbus prepares safety warnings, page 1

Airbus is drafting a worldwide safety warning about electrical problems on some of its aircraft. The company is investigating a fault that temporarily shut off primary cockpit displays and computer controls on a BMI flight from Khartoum to Beirut in August. The standby instruments on the A321 plane did operate normally.

More problems for Airbus it seems. What got me wondering was this passage.

The pilots reported that without warning the aircraft began to shudder, banking steeply on its own - failing to respond to pilot commands over a period of several minutes.

The crew said they were bombarded by a stream of warning messages before cockpit screens turned grey and then went blank.

BBC


The statement where it says there was a loss of control and a stream of warning indicators sounds very similar to the Air France crash. Is it possible that this was a similar problem that actually caused that? and not the pitot tubes as previously thought?

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Could the disruption in control come from the amount of solar activity lately... as the suns charged particles can interfere with communication satellites and electrical grids? en.wikipedia.org...

When did the Air France accident happen?

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One of the original threads is here iirc?

www.abovetopsecret.com...

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Here is a blog post where a little bit of research connected solar activity on May 31st of 2009 and the location of the Air France flight in conjunction with the thinned magnetic shield.futurenewstoday.blogspot.com...

With what is going on with the sun over the past couple of months and the thinning of the magnetosphere this would make sense.

Originally posted by Witness2008
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Could the disruption in control come from the amount of solar activity lately... as the suns charged particles can interfere with communication satellites and electrical grids? en.wikipedia.org...

When did the Air France accident happen?

I doubt it.

Except for the windscreen, most commercial planes have a metal exterior that should act like a Faraday cage, though if EM is leaking through the windshield, that could be coated with a transparent conductive coating to improve shielding.

I wouldn't say it's impossible, but it just doesn't seem too likely a cause. And the only mention I saw in your wiki link about airplanes, is disruption of communications/navigation which are due to disruptions external to the aircraft, not any internal malfunction.

If a plane was made of non-conductive composites which didn't shield EM like metal does, then interference from external EM sources would be more likely.

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