That plane looks scary to me. It's like they're trying to take a serious form of transportation and turn into something fun. I think the airline industry is just asking for trouble. It seems like the Airbus 380 would house a more uncontrolled environment. And there's too much excess that doesn't direct itself at the safety and performance of an air craft.
2007-11-27 12:50:27 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Air Travel
The A380 is a perfectly safe aircraft. Before the aircraft takes to the skies with passengers, the plane must pass an evacuation test in which all passengers can get off the airplane within a certain amount of time. Since the A380 passed that test, it should be okay.
Even though I prefer Boeing aircraft, I would feel perfectly safe flying in the A380.
2007-11-29 05:37:54 · answer #1 · answered by potatochip 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ludicrous. the 747-8 is the world's most redundant airplane. 12 engine driven IDGs, 2 APU IDGs, 4 engines, dual path failsafe structures, dual tandem actuators, split rudder and double hinged lower section, a G rating of 5.5G at Mach 1.12 shows its stucture (proven by China Airlines flight 006, a 747SP) the 747-8 has the same speed ratings as the SP and more structural integrety, so could probably withstand more G at 1.12 mach, the rudder for example, has 5 actuators, the A380 only has 1 actuator per piece, or the elevators only have 1 actuator per piece whereas the 747 has 2 or 3 depending on the elevator piece. The 747-8 has dual thrust management, manoeuvre load alleviation, a revised TCAS system, and it doesn't have the stupid flight envelope restriction that the A380 does. The A380 also uses the side sticks which lacks visual feedback, the thrust levers in all Airbus flight decks don't move on autothrottle, there is no 'feel' through the side sticks, so the pilots don't know what the aircraft is doing. There's way more but I'm not here to type my life away. The fact remains the a380 is safe, but only during normal flight (which has been tested and certified). A380s had shown with rib feet cracks which they got away ith by claiming it wasn't a critical structure. But now the spars are the weak point, fatigue cracking is all over the wings. I did say 3 spars weren't enough for an airplane with much larger, heavier wings which carry more fuel, have a larger span and further outboard, bigger, heavier engines. Notice the rediculous dihedral at the wing roots because they droop down so much that they had to have exteme dihedral at the roots to stop them smashing against the tarmac during a heavy landing. I would say the 747 is easily the safest airplane and the A380 is also safe, but only up to the point where it is pushed into an emergency state. The structure would fail far too easily. The A300/A310/A330/A340/A320 airframes have demonstrated structural failures many times of the vertical stab during seemingly copeable phases of flight like wake vortex. Flying deathtraps in my opinion, they only get away with it because aviation standards are so good and there's never really any emergencies in flight anymore. So yes, board an Airbus happily, knowing that the regulations keep you safe, but don't rely on that aircraft to save your a**. the flight 'protection' is only so Airbus can get away with their pitiful structures.
2014-04-26 16:07:35 · answer #2 · answered by Samuel 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The A380 is no less safe than any other airplane. If it was unsafe, the various government safety agencies would not have certified it for commercial operation.
The "excesses" to which you refer are probably the news reports that the aircraft would have gyms, showers, shopping, etc. In reality, no airline has installed any of that stuff at this time. They make money by filling seats, so they left out the frills in favor of more seats.
There are good reasons to avoid the A380 (like the inconvenience and congestion of 700 people disembarking and going to the baggage claim at once), but safety is not one of them.
2007-11-27 22:05:27 · answer #3 · answered by The Shadow 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Are you sure you don't work for Boeing? What scares me about the 380 is when I and 600 other people descend upon the luggage carousel/customs/immigration at the same time?
2007-11-27 20:54:38 · answer #4 · answered by michinoku2001 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If it was a death trap, they would not be able to find any pilots to fly it for any amount of money. So I say no.
2007-11-27 20:57:22 · answer #5 · answered by Irish 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Seeing that it has more backup systems and flight controls.. than any other plane out there, I say NO.
2007-11-27 22:42:08 · answer #6 · answered by Pilot Tanner 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nonsense, it sounds like you are paranoid as there is no rationale to your thinking.
2007-11-28 13:16:06 · answer #7 · answered by Very happily married. 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋