*video* france has another bad idea...
 

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haha, what a nice landing!!

hey at least the puter walk away!

omg, wtf! the guy never landed, hilarious till i saw the boom, was anyone on that plane?

pilot: that landing strip looks too small, we better land in that forest

co pilot: good idea

rofl @ mikey

i wonder how they did that, i mean did they spend all that money then just let the computer go for it, i have to belive someone was in that plane

i'd be funny if after it crashed that guy said... "that was the only computer driven plane."

had a WIN BSOD and couldn't land

That was an airbus doing a low fly-by at some airshow in France. I don't remember exactly but there was some debate about the cause of this crash. I believed the captian claimed to add power but the plane did not respond. Airbus uses, I believe, a fly by wire system on all their aircraft. The aircraft was carrying some passengers and some were killed.

Ohhh no.. oh no. That is nutty and sad at the same time.

Thanks for sharing, phred.

pretty schocking, i seen this on a tv program once, quite a few people died.

those bastards! the french support strange means of deforestation...

but seriously, i think some people coulda died in that crash, so my deepest condolances go out to them.

That was at least 10 yrs. ago.
What are they doing today?

no one died in the crash. that was a testbed for a fully autonomous autopilot.

oooppps!