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Airbus had similar issues a while back. The software was forcing the nose of the plane down and the pilots had to fight with it to bring the plane out of a dive.

Is it absolutely necessary for the computer to be adjusting the angle of attack?

https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/the-untold-story-of-qf72-wh...

https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2...

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Issues?

"The occurrence was the only known example where this design limitation led to a pitch-down command in over 28 million flight hours on A330/A340 aircraft"

The common-platform A330/40 had been in service for 15 years before this event. It really was a freak failure of one computer unit which went haywire and which led to a design change to mitigate it. That was 11 years ago.

It is deceptive to claim it's anything like the 737 Max issue.

lol. This is not a similar issue at all. This is just corruption at its finest.

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