XPost: alt.disasters.aviation, rec.aviation.piloting, rec.travel.air 
 XPost: rec.travel.usa-canada 
 From: peterl@hotmail.com 
  
 "AbsolutelyCertain"  wrote in message 
 news:clm7fe$iva$0@pita.alt.net... 
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 > "Pete"  wrote in message 
 > news:51xfd.7887$KJ6.88@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net... 
 > > > But Molin didn't know he was putting more pressure on the tail than 
 > > > it could bear. Why he didn't -- and who's to blame for that -- is the 
 > > > subject of a bitter fight between Airbus and American. 
 > > 
 > > I thought that was one of the main advantages of fly-by-wire systems, 
 > > to eliminate truly stupid actions of pilots.  Sounds like Airbus shares 
 > > a lot of blame for the crash.  It's like an auto maker made a car that 
 > > sheared off its wheels if the steering wheel was turned too quickly, 
 > > and the maker's response was to tell drivers, "Don't do that!" 
 > 
 > Don't laugh.  The CJ-5 Jeep, maybe the most rollover-prone street vehicle 
 > ever, was sold with essentially this admonition:  Don't roll it over. 
 > 
 > It worked for me; I never rolled mine over. 
 > 
  
 And if you should roll it over, try not to be inside the car at the time of 
 the roll over. 
  
  
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