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Originally Posted by Minx
I heard this morning that just prior to landing all the lights went out inside the plane. They (the passengers) all cheered when the plane touched down because they were worried. *go figure*
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The Airbus is a pretty sweet plane and pretty solid, it's also very technologically advanced -it's all run on pretty high tech computer systems that have a bunch of redundency built into them.. The planes literally fly themselves
What is so disturbing about hearing that the lights went out... is that they lost electrical systems, which would make me thing- -what's running the computer system that's flying the plane... I'd imagine with no electrical system or computer system it'd be like flying a really big toaster...
The question I'd ask is why'd the power go out? Was it hit by lightening? Airbus has an excellent safety record, but I'd be curious to know if this is possible for it to happen again.