Fly the Airplane
Plane and Pilot
MAY 31, 2025
It was the evening of June 1, 2009, and Flight 447, a 4-year-old Airbus 330, was serenely cruising just below the equator at FL 360. Suddenly, one of the Airbus three redundant pitot tubes clogged with ice crystals. In the old days of VOR and ADF, we just turned knobs and pushed a few buttons.
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