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Investigators Suspect Computers Doomed Air France Jet
DesScorp writes "Investigators working with the wreckage of Air France flight 447 believe the aircraft suffered cascading system failures with the on-board computers, eliminating the automation the aircraft needed to stay aloft. 'Relying on backup instruments, the Air France pilots apparently struggled to restart flight-management computers even as their plane may have begun breaking up from excessive speed,' reports the Wall Street Journal. Computer malfunctions may not be an isolated incident on the Airbus A330, as the NTSB is now investigating two other flights 'in which airspeed and altitude indications in the cockpits of Airbus A330 aircraft may have malfunctioned.'"
The aircraft must have been running Linux. That's what you get when you use a free operating system, written by a bunch of hobbyist coders. Linux can't even compete in the same category as Windows. Windows is far superior. Linux doesn't even have an easy means for DACL manipulation and the list goes on.
and shut them down they did.
the actions of the computer made the plane unable to continue flying.
you are a clone of arrogant prick programmers who make dumb-ass choices every day.
your logic defies common sense, get out of rationalization and into reality!
"what do you do when the computer does not believe there is a fault condition. "
Simple... switch the computer off!
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2KygSyVE58
No sig today...
Unless you are a pilot or work for Air France I suggest you have no knowledge and should refrain from speculation. Ooops, too late, wankers ahoy.
Anybody who talks utter shit on this thread can not expect unquestioning belief, or even basic respect, on any other thread ever, GOT IT ?
No, not even respect - if you show none, don't expect any yourself.
Your comment makes me wish we were in a bar, so I could smash a beer bottle on your nose.
The person who wrote the comment was an airline pilot. You aren't. Therefore, all you are is a shit-talking
know-it-all geek who has probably never even flown a plane.
What the original poster meant was he did not want computer intervention in the control systems.
If you weren't in love with the idea that your intelligence is superior you'd know that, and you wouldn't make
idiotic comments which allude to the misconception that a mechanical connection implies no mechanical
advantage.
I bet your car has power steering, you smart-mouthed cocksucker, and I bet you're too fucking weak to parallel-park
without it.
Why don't you do the world a favor and hang yourself ?
Many people who call themselves "conservative" are merely angry.