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Comair Done In by 16-Bit Counter

Posted by michael on from the whoopsie dept.

Gogo Dodo writes "According to the Cincinnati Post, the Comair system crash was caused by an overflowed 16-bit counter. Perhaps Comair should have paid for the software upgrade to MaestroCrew." You heard it here first...

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  1. The far bigger snafu... by tjgrant · · Score: 1, Troll

    ...was over at US Air, where a large number of selfish and uncaring union employees decided to mess up a huge number of their customer's Christmas plans.

    While stupid stuff like this software problem is embarrassing, and the SBS and the people who wrote the software should hang their heads in shame it was still unintentional and is nowhere as shameful as the deliberate sabotage done to US Air's customers by their union employees.

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    tjg.