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Airbus, forced to change the probes of almost 4,000 aircraft

The European aircraft manufacturer Airbus today confirmed to Efe that will replace
 probes angle of nearly 4,000 of its aircraft family
 A320 and A330-A340, under new rules which prepares the Agency
 European Aviation Safety Authority (EASA).
The origin of regulatory change
 responds to an incident on November 5, 2014 on a flight of an A321 operated
 by the German airline Lufthansa 1200 meters when suddenly fell
 was traveling from Bilbao (Spain) to Munich.
“it is the first incident 80
 million flights, “he told Efe a spokesman for Airbus.
The agency, with
 Based in the German city of Cologne, he told Efe preparing a directive
 Airworthiness “avoid potential problems.”

 

The ruling in that way was due to a malfunction of the probes
 angle of attack, reflecting the aircraft maintains a flight angle
 adequate and, misinterpreting the data may vary
 automatically tilting the device.
According to Airbus, based in
 Toulouse, in southern France, the change of these probes in more than 3,000
 apparatus A320 family (A318, A319 and A320) and 740 A330-340 aircraft is
 He explains that “air transport is highly regulated and safety measures
 They are very demanding “and not because there is an imminent risk.
reinforced EASA
 that argument by stating that if it were a real concern, the agency
 It would have issued an emergency airworthiness directive and aircraft
 “Would have been grounded” immediately.
Pilots have
 received “comprehensive advice” to avoid possible problems related
 probes with angle of attack while current probes replaced Airbus
 UTAS and the Sextant / Thomson manufacturers for new devices
 Thales will manufacture added EASA.
builder, did not supply the effort
 that will finance the new regulations by the required confidentiality
 “Between the parties on a contractual basis” will take between 6 and 21
 months to be equipped with new sensors into their devices once it is published
 officially the new rules, by the end of this
 year.
precisely the time that Airbus will have to implement the
 directive is an example of “the least that is the risk,” said the EASA.

 is the first time that the probes of the Airbus aircraft to give problems, that 1
 June 2009 went through a delicate moment after an A330 of Air
 France rushed in the Atlantic when it flew from Rio de Janeiro
 (Brazil) to Paris with 228 people on board.
Airbus, which had on February 9
 to face the deadly plane crash Airbus military transport
 A400M in Seville (Spain) during a test flight, has been left at 3.64%
 French Stock Exchange in the last month.
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Published on Monday, May 18, 2015