> In the case of Flight 447, Air France’s pilots’ union has pointed a finger at Airbus by suggesting that the stall warning system on the A330 likely contributed to the doomed flight crew’s confusion by sounding only intermittently even though the plane remained in a stall the whole time.
> In the Air France crash, for example, investigators noted that the plane’s critical angle of attack “was not directly displayed to the pilots” [...]
Not only were they overloaded with useless noise, but critical information was either delivered in a confusing way, by design, or hidden from view...
> In the case of Flight 447, Air France’s pilots’ union has pointed a finger at Airbus by suggesting that the stall warning system on the A330 likely contributed to the doomed flight crew’s confusion by sounding only intermittently even though the plane remained in a stall the whole time.
> In the Air France crash, for example, investigators noted that the plane’s critical angle of attack “was not directly displayed to the pilots” [...]
Not only were they overloaded with useless noise, but critical information was either delivered in a confusing way, by design, or hidden from view...
They need UX people, badly.