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Crew fights the autopilot's go-around trim on approach to Nagoya; China Airlines Flight 140 stalls, killing 264

China Airlines Flight 140, an Airbus A300-600R, stalled and crashed at Nagoya Airport on 26 April 1994, killing 264 of 271 aboard, after the autopilot's go-around trim ran the stabilizer full nose-up against the pilot's manual nose-down inputs.

An A320 autopilot flew a 3,300 ft/min descent into a French ridge, killing 87

Air Inter Flight 148, an Airbus A320, descended at 3,300 feet per minute into a wooded ridge near Mont Sainte-Odile on 20 January 1992, killing 87 of 96 aboard; investigators judged confusion between the autopilot's vertical speed and flight path angle modes quite probable but could not prove it.