User:Andrewa/List of life threatening airliner instrument malfunctions

A list of incidents that either caused life-threatening injuries or had a clear potential to do so

If an incident resulted in a published report in which the flight instruments or automated controls were blamed for the risk to safety, it belongs here whether or not we have an article covering it

Otherwise, it probably doesn't belong, but discuss on the talk page

Loss of flight instruments or controls as a result of another failure does not necessarily qualify for inclusion, however an unrelated failure in instruments or controls that aggravated what was already a failure situation and elevated it to an emergency definitely would

Preample

Difficult to avoid OR here, but sources should solve that

Modern aircraft, and particularly commercial aircraft, increasingly depend on instruments, even when not flying by instrument flight rules, and on flight management systems including but not only increasingly sophisticated and integrated autopilots, autothrottle and autoland.

This dependence, and the resulting reduction of crew experience in flying without these aids, while generally making air travel safer has added a new risk, as demonstrated by these incidents.

The list

• Lion Air Flight 610 MCAS
• Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 MCAS
• Qantas Flight 72
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ota57uxa-wo
• China Northwest Airlines Flight 2303 autopilot failure
• Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 CB reset disabled fly-by-wire
• Flight 9001 Airbus A320-200 multiple computer shutdowns
• Air France Flight 447 uninformative messages

See also

• Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System or MCAS implicated in flights 610 and 302
• Flight control primary computer or FCPC
• China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 unexplained crash but no indication of instrument or automation failure

Sources

• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/study-automatic-pilot-may-add-to-flight-risk/ (August 30, 2011)

See also

• Boeing 737 MAX groundings
  • Category:Accidents and incidents involving the Boeing 737 MAX
• Air data inertial reference unit#Failures and directives
• The Air Astana Flight 1388 emergency was caused by incorrect maintenance rather than FCM failure as such, but disconnecting the FCM was essential to making the aircraft controllable
• China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 appears to be some sort of loss of control, early days yet and it is not clear how much automation the 737-800 in question has
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xixM_cwSLcQ mentour pilot on recovery from MCAS and similar problems