It's frightening if not ironic to think an invention from the early 1700s could have triggered a chain of events that brought down Air France Flight 447. Pitot tubes that today measure airspeed were ...
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Airbus knew since at least 2002 about problems with the type of speed sensor that malfunctioned on an Air France passenger plane that went down in June, the Associated Press has learned. But air ...
The saga over Airbus A330/A340 pitot tube continues. This time, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) issued an emergency airworthiness directive related to Goodrich tubes. Operators have been ...
Air France confirmed a Le Figaro report that one of its A320s flying from Rome Fiumicino to Paris Charles de Gaulle on July 13 had a "very brief six-second anomaly" in its airspeed data display that ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...
This is the extraordinary story of an aircraft which was in good flying order except for a blocked pitot tube which caused multiple problems. Birgenair Flight 301 crashed shortly after take off from ...