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Old 06-22-2014 | 08:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Sink r8
Airbus Industrie Flight 129 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

What was interesting to me, is how little discussion there was at the time, about what this meant for the aircraft's certification. It seems to have failed a legitimate test. Did they simply change the allowable CG range?
Don't think so as the purpose of the test was to use the a/p I think and not so much a cg limit. Accident was caused by lots of small errors by crew from what I remember reading. There are a couple of NWA guys still around from the A340 program that could tell more as they were in France a lot. Think they knew pilots from this accident too..