Get on the Bus
Flying on Airbus. Safe or not?
The aircraft shakes and buffets violently. The G force on the [pilot display] reads +5 but the instructor’s panel shows +8. The aircraft breaks up in flight around 20,000 ft.
“I wouldn’t touch anything, not even for a dollar, in those areas,” he said.
Airbus jets’ computers are programmed with some strict rules (in fact, Airbus calls them “Laws”) designed to assess the human commands from the flight deck – and veto them if they would put the plane in harm’s way.