Airbus said that the accident was not due to military aircraft mistake – El Diario Yucatan

         

     

PARIS (EFE) .- The president of Airbus group, Patrice Brégier, said today that the A400M in Seville accident was not due to a misconception of this military aircraft, but the causes were either the procedures of test flights, although the application of these procedures.

Brégier, television and radio questioned in an interview with “itele” and “France Inter” about the fact that an untimely update the software that manages engines triggered the failure which led to the incident, noted that “entry that means the design of the aircraft is not in question”.

Then he added that “there was rather a weakness in the test procedures of the aircraft” since the tragedy occurred on the first test flight of a production aircraft, “rather a problem that came from the implementation of those procedures.”

The “number one” of the company did not explicit mention of failures in the assembly process at the plant in Seville, as if he had suggested the chief strategy Marwan Lahoud, in an interview Thursday the German newspaper “Handelsblatt”.

But confirmation He implied that the fault originated in the ECU software, responsible for regulating engine power according to the signals sent by the pilot, pointing to human error, probably that this program is not properly loaded in the A400M that crashed.

Brégier insisted that teams defense division of Airbus-of which depend on military planes will examine “very closely” all these issues and receive address “All (the) support.”

When asked if an assembly error as it is seen in Seville accident could also occur in a civil transport plane, said Airbus President “We took the consequences every time an accident like this, or even an incident occurs”.

And stressed that “in the last 20 years has not produced any problems in Toulouse”, where tests are centralized civil commercial aircraft.
A400M Airbus had already guessed, before the crash of Seville last May 9 -in which killed four of their employees, a real financial fiasco.
test of this fiasco it is that last February had to establish a new provision in its accounts of 551 million euros to deal with the problems of industrialization, with “bottlenecks” on the ground of Seville.
plane crash It was intended for Turkey, which had previously received other two.
time Airbus has suspended the process of new releases, so that hardly put in the hands of its customers who had scheduled 14 in 2015, including two from early January and were integrated into the military fleets in the UK and Malaysia.
Airbus has delivered so far a dozen units-six to France, two in the UK, two to Turkey, one to Germany and one to Malaysia .
The manufacturer has received orders for 174 A400M, 170 for the seven countries that launched (Germany 53, France 50, Spain 27, UK 22, Turkey 10, Belgium 7 and Luxembourg 1) which program and . the other four for the first export market, Malaysia

               
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