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Computer Error Caused Qantas Jet Mishap
highways sends word that preliminary investigations into a Qantas Airbus A330 mishap where 51 passengers were injured has concluded that it was due to the Air Data Inertial Reference System feeding incorrect information into the flight control system — not interference from passenger electronics, as Qantas had initially claimed. Quoting from the ABC report: "Authorities have blamed a faulty onboard computer system for last week's mid-flight incident on a Qantas flight to Perth. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau said incorrect information from the faulty computer triggered a series of alarms and then prompted the Airbus A330's flight control computers to put the jet into a 197-meter nosedive ... The plane was cruising at 37,000 feet when a fault in the air data inertial reference system caused the autopilot to disconnect. But even with the autopilot off, the plane's flight control computers still command key controls in order to protect the jet from dangerous conditions, such as stalling, the ATSB said."
Unglaublich. Du kanst niemal richtig Rechtschreibung machen. Du Dep. Auber wirklich soll Quntas Boeing flugzueg aussuchen. Sorry for bad Englisch.
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yeah, my tinfoil hat is particularly tight today. but they do ban some silly things, like safety scissors, and liquids in containers less than 500ml have to be checked and sealed in a small plastic bag by security, when if you really want a weapon it's easiest to make a shiv out of the plastic knives they give you or hide a small capsule of lighter fluid up your arse.
-- Sex is the antonym of pringles. Once you pop it's time to stop.
Ausgezeichnet! Neh.. es ist nur kvatch Deutch. Auber Wunderbare Theorie wegend der LHC. I'm surprised it didn't fold up the wings.
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I had wondered why babblefish didn't cope at all well with what had been said, and wondered if it was an odd dialect, or more likely, a wry comment in non-standard German. I deliberately mangle English at times.
I was wondering though that if a black hole had been created, it would possibly oscillate through the Earth, back and forth. The period of passage could be longer than 50 mins if it started with excess velocity, and went some distance above the earth before returning. So it would be largely invisible, and only noticed if it collided with a particularly vulnerable bit of gear. A sort of malign Flying Spaghetti Monster, without the theological support. It's just a speculative whimsy. Or it could just be that after 5 billion years of cosmic ray bombardment, one of them finally hit a plane. This is much easier to believe than the possibility that a software engineer screwed up the flight compensation.
Aber kann er auch einen Stein erschaffen, der so schwer ist, dass er ihn nicht mehr heben kann?