Project Airbus – Talk

Hey,
today in the German news there was brought up a story of an incident 2010, that was covered down up to now. That were the news once:

http://avherald.com/h?article=434c3290

Now it was reported in a new investigation that the A319 pilots almost became unconscious on approach due to agressive smell, and that it was classified as a severe incident.
I wonder why they couldn't deploy the oxygen-masks manually. At least there would have been the option to have the Autopilot landing on CAT3 at Cologne (with autobrakes set to max). Wouldn't that have been an ermegency solution?

Greetings
EDDM

Theres no mention there that they nearly fainted, etc.

Hi,
there is no english article yet, but every Newspaper in Germany reported about the investigation. Here is one German article:

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft ... b=comments

(maybe use Google translator)

http://www.avherald.com/h?article=434e753b

That is some scary shit.