Flying Down

YES. It's an automated plane like ANY modern aircraft today. Airliner or jet fighter.
But this footage was taken during an air show where the muppets on the commands "just" desactivated the onboard computer (which would not have allowed to be so low, so SLOW) AND forgot that putting back trust takes 10 seconds to be effective.

The pilots were 100% faulty for the crash that killed over 100 people (since then, no more passengers in the cabins during air showns by the way).

IF the computer would have been turned on, this would never have happened!

why should computers need something like a cockpit???

or is it vice-versa?

national geographic channel there was 3 test pilots to watch the landing when air france (airbus)was testing a new computer that cud land a plane without pilots ..

glitches to work out in that computer

The newly delivered aircraft was to perform a charter flight on behalf of the Mulhouse Flying Club. The crew was to overfly Mulhouse-Habsheim airport two times (first at low speed, gear down at 100ft and the other at high speed in clean configuration) as part of an airshow. The aircraft took off from Basle-Mulhouse at 2:41pm local time and climbed to 1000 feet. The crew started the descent three minutes later and Habsheim was in sight at 450ft agl. The first officer informed the captain that the aircraft was reaching 100ft at 14:45:14. The descent continued to 50ft 8 seconds later and further to 30-35ft. Go-around power was added at 14.45:35. The A320 continued and touched trees at the end of the runway at 14:45:40 with a 14° pitch attitude and an engine speed of 83% N1. The plane sank slowly into the forest and a fire broke out. Failure of the Captain to maintain sufficient altitude and airspeed for recovery after a low approach to a runway with obstacles near the departure end.
www. AirDisaster. Com

EEEE.....It's not a Airbus,It'a a Boeing 767 from Air France.

from WIKIPEDIA link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A320

Quote:"Early crashes, including the Air France A320 crash during an airshow in Habsheim, France, on 26 June 1988, dented the image of the A320 and its new computer controlled fly-by-wire technologies (Video of the crash). The cause of the crash remains in dispute, as the investigation was hindered by the tampering of essential evidence[1]. Officially, the crash was attributed to pilot error. However, some suggest that the new computer systems and previously known deficiencies of the aircraft were the actual cause of the accident."

The plane crashed at a yearly show for planes (don't remember where) some years ago. You can see the plane flying by, and making no intention for a landing. However, while its nose is up in the air, the pilot could not see the trees and crashed. Both pilot and co-pilot died.

Why does the dumbass filming this say "oh la la la" and then "oh non oh non oh non"?. The plane is clearly about to crash as it skims the tops of trees and disappears into the wooded area, but you can hear genuine surprise in the guy's voice when he sees smoke and hears an explosion. What a shocker! Dumbass...

A smaller plane was automated and exploded on it't landing this time.

I feel so sorry for those passengers, may god be with them.

You know, those domino blocks where you would try really hard to stack them together and arrange them so that something cool happens when you tip one over, and you get all frustrated trying to get it to work just right when you tip them over but it doesn't work? This is like a really, really expensive version of that.

This is a test flight . Airbus has always been dreaming that fly by wire technology will lead them to fly their aircraft by computer ground controled.
Well as u can see, Thank god we are still needed in the cockpit !

this was only a flight test with an automatic airplane. nobody died.. unfortunally the landing was not good .. but nobody was involved