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Software Bug Caused Qantas Airbus A330 To Nose-Dive
pdcull writes "According to Stuff.co.nz, the Australian Transport Safety Board found that a software bug was responsible for a Qantas Airbus A330 nose-diving twice while at cruising altitude, injuring 12 people seriously and causing 39 to be taken to the hospital. The event, which happened three years ago, was found to be caused by an airspeed sensor malfunction, linked to a bug in an algorithm which 'translated the sensors' data into actions, where the flight control computer could put the plane into a nosedive using bad data from just one sensor.' A software update was installed in November 2009, and the ATSB concluded that 'as a result of this redesign, passengers, crew and operators can be confident that the same type of accident will not reoccur.' I can't help wondering just how a piece of code, which presumably didn't test its input data for validity before acting on it, could become part of a modern jet's onboard software suite?"
calm down google fan-boy/employee/puppet.
Qantas has had a lot of problems lately. A google search for Qantas will reveal the dozens of mechanical faults that have very nearly killed people. Over here in Australia we get a report of this sort of shit happening every week or so. It's surreal, because Qantas (as Rainman will attest) has been THE world's safest airline. The problem is that they moved all their labour and expertise out into Malaysia, using substandard parts and engineering to save cash, rather than doing the job properly with Australian parts and expertise. Obviously they've hired some cheap IT guys as well. They need to stop this and bring back the fleet's maintenance back home, or this is just going to keep happening.
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