Mid-air safety scare as pilots lose control of Airbus with 43 passengers on board

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By DAVID DERBYSHIRE
Last updated at 9:30 AM on 13th November 2010


Airbus is at the centre of a new safety scare after pilots temporarilty lost control of a juddering plane with 43 passengers on board.

An electrical fault caused a twin-engined A321 jet to shake and veer sharply to the left for several minutes while the crew fought to regain control.

By the time the glitch was rectified, the plane was 20 miles off course.

Airbus yesterday insisted the incident - which took place in August - was a 'one off' and said that no planes would be grounded.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1329366/Mid-air-safety-scare-pilots-lose-control-Airbus-43-passengers-board.html

[Cirque du So-What]

1. 'Juddering?'

That's a new word for my vocabulary. So is 'temporarilty,' but I'm assuming that's just another typo that slipped through the cracks due to shoddy proofreading in the corporate media.

Seriously, Airbus' dismissive attitude is disturbing. Calling this a 'one off' is premature, seeing that 'Airbus spokesman Stefan Schaffrath said the company was investigating the cause of the fault.' If they're still investigating, then how in pluperfect hell can they state this was a 'one off?' More from the Airbus spokesman: 'The symptoms of this event were new to us so we are seriously looking into it.' I would hope to hell so!

[DavidDvorkin]

4. Judder is British usage

Here you go: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/judder

[Cirque du So-What]

6. I figured as much

I'm well aware that certain words are unique to the American or the British lexicon. I was just mentioning that I had never before seen that particular British word.

[90-percent]

2. Airbus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kHa3WNerjU

One of these days a new Airbus will take 800 souls with it in an avoidable crash. And the cause will be due to the "lack of imagination" of the programmers failing to consider unlikely scenarios.

Airbus planes creep me out.

-90% Jimmy

[Ian David]

3. They shoulda listened to this guy...

[WinkyDink]

5. "It's the Airbus, Stupid." The only plane to simply fall from the sky.