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by snowwrestler 902 days ago
Airbus’s human factor engineering was so bad that it led experienced pilots to fly a perfectly good aircraft into the ocean. They were repeatedly warned about this, and still have not fully fixed it.
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On the other hand, there was Qantas flight 32:

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-matter-of-millimeters-...

Airbus’s flight controls worked sufficiently well that the pilots could still keep the plane in the air and then land it successfully despite the massive damage to the plane.