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."

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[flakron]

betcha it was running windows millenium

Don't forget the spin

[tgv]

And what do you think Qantas is going to retort? That the malfunction was caused by radio signals from passengers' electronic devices. Duh! Look at it. A computer starts spewing "random data". That can only be caused by random radio waves from random clicking with a wireless mouse. No, in a few months time, everyone bringing a wireless mouse on board will be considered a terrorist.

Re:Questions:

[Viol8]

Oh yes there have.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_296

And don't retort with that old guff about it being the pilots fault.

Don't forget quantas tried to blame passengers

[freedom_india]

Don't forget Quantas tried to blame passenger electronics for this and tried to shift blame off them.
According to Quantas Corporate Policy, passengers are pests and hassels for their "Safe Flying" policy.
So they are trying to "that guy" passengers from flying with them.
You know what? They succeeded!
I will never fly quantas: Ever!
Their award-winning bad-service, shitty gum-chewing airhostesses, their aussie-time-mentality and now unsafe aircraft are NOT the places where i rest my hairy ass.

Re:Questions:

[Viol8]

Yeah , because there'll be confidential files lying around that you can google for and disprove an entire trial.