On June 26, 1988, an Air France A320 was scheduled to perform a low-speed flyover during an air show at Mulhouse-Habsheim Airport in eastern France. The demonstration was planned at an altitude of ...

Airbus pioneered the use of fly-by-wire (FBW) systems in commercial aviation with the launch of its successful Airbus A320 program in the late 1980s. The A320's fully digital FBW system was a first ...