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Approximately 10 minutes after takeoff, as Flight 8501 reached its cruising altitude of 32,000 feet, a warning flashed in the cockpit: Auto Flight Rudder Travel Limiter System. Following standard procedures, the first officer alerted the captain about the issue, and the two proceeded to follow the checklist outlined by the aircraft's electronic centralized aircraft monitoring system (ECAM). They reset the flight augmentation computers successfully, but issues arose again shortly after, with the warning repeating itself multiple times during the flight. This series of technical glitches would prove disruptive.