Airbus A380 Under Fire

jose parinas writes "The security of the Airbus A380 jetliner is questioned by a U.S. Engineer that faces arrest and bankruptcy in Austria. A year ago, Mangan told European aviation authorities that he believed there were problems with a computer chip on the Airbus A380, the biggest and costliest commercial airliner ever built."

ha

[Anonymous Coward]

This story will never get off the ground.

First Matter of Business

[Brent Spiner]

TTTech? Are these the people that made the PPPowerbook? No wonder shit don't work.

They're not very secure

[freeweed]

After all, it's easy to lose your daughter on one.

To top it off, the flight attendants just don't care :(

Re:Autopilot

[Anonymous Coward]

The story about the plane losing pressure then flying on autopilot before crashing is interesting. Doesn't the plane know it has lost cabin pressure? If it's on autopilot why can't it reduce altitude so the people can regain consciousness? Hell, why can't it just declare an emergency and automatically land at the nearest airport after receiving an OK signal from the airport that it's safe to land.

Do you really want an aeroplane that makes decisions by itself?

What if, for example, it dedicded that it was a revolutionary and flew to Cuba?

Or perhaps it decides to become Wahabbi and makes a beeline for the nearest skyscraper?

What then?

Perhaps the pilots will be required to have a degree in psychology and be liscensed therapists in order to convince the aeroplane it has made a poor decision?

Re:Snitching on your employer

[Anonymous Coward]

what is the difference between letting a random stranger die from a product defect so you can keep your paycheck, and shooting a random stranger to take his money ?

Corporations do the first one all the time without impunity, while governments do the second?

Re:But are the problems only limited to the one ch

[shobadobs]

It's impossible to prove a negative.

Oh? I'd like to see you prove this claim.