Side-stick
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A side-stick or sidestick controller is an aircraft control stick that is located on the side console of the pilot, usually on the righthand side, or outboard on a two-seat flightdeck. Typically this
Airbus A380 flight deck with black side-sticks on the left side of the left seat and on the right side of the right seat. The throttle controls in the central console are black, labeled 1–4.
F-16 cockpit showing side-stick
Air France Flight 447
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Air France Flight 447 was a scheduled international transatlantic passenger flight from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, France, that crashed into the mid-Atlantic Ocean on
The aircraft's vertical stabilizer being recovered from the Atlantic Ocean
F-GZCP, the aircraft involved in the accident, pictured in May 2009
Passengers checking in for AF443, another Rio de Janeiro-Paris route, on the day of AF447's disappearance.
The aircraft's vertical stabilizer after its recovery from the ocean