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bgwalteryesterday at 8:35 PM2 repliesview on HN

According to the airworthiness directive:

  Affected ELAC: Elevator aileron computer (ELAC) ELAC B L104

  Serviceable ELAC: ELAC B L103+
So it's a regression that affects decades old aircraft. Of course Airbus is now also meddling with "AI":

https://www.airbus.com/en/innovation/digital-transformation/...

Obviously there no direct connection here, but it seems that destabilizing perfectly working aircraft could be the product of a culture shift.


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kergonathyesterday at 10:42 PM

> Obviously there no direct connection here, but it seems that destabilizing perfectly working aircraft could be the product of a culture shift.

A culture shift following a fad in the last couple of years that caused "a regression" (whatever you mean by that) in an aircraft that was made years before, and that was designed years before again? How would that work? They can stop selling aircrafts if they have a time machine.

mosurayesterday at 9:57 PM

From what I have heard of how much Airbus pay people . . “Much” is the wrong word.