It's frightening if not ironic to think an invention from the early 1700s could have triggered a chain of events that brought down Air France Flight 447. Pitot tubes that today measure airspeed were ...
Air France confirmed a Le Figaro report that one of its A320s flying from Rome Fiumicino to Paris Charles de Gaulle on July 13 had a "very brief six-second anomaly" in its airspeed data display that ...
June 10 (Reuters) - Attention is focusing on the possibility that faulty speed sensors, or pitot tubes, were a factor in causing an Air France Airbus A330 to crash into the Atlantic Ocean last week.