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Crashing iPad App Grounds Dozens of American Airline Flights

Posted by Soulskill on from the have-you-tried-pushing-the-button dept.

infolation writes: American Airlines was forced to delay multiple flights on Tuesday night after the iPad app used by pilots crashed. Introduced in 2013, the cockpit iPads are used as an "electronic flight bag," replacing 16kg (35lb) of paper manuals which pilots are typically required to carry on flights. In some cases, the flights had to return to the gate to access Wi-Fi to fix the issue.

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  1. Re:Why such crap? by maestroX · · Score: 1, Troll

    Do you have a better and more reliable tablet system in mind, or are you suggesting that they should have stuck with the 35-pound suitcases full of printed material?

    It takes less than 1 mins of googling for rugged laptop/tablet or whatever, and I'm not even qualified to make such as decision.
    (e.g. panasonic toughtablet)
    something pretty vital to ops should have had more consideration than guessing a popular consumer item will do.
    What the fuck are they thinking when replacing critical units?

  2. subject lines are dumb by Falos · · Score: 0, Troll

    So they knob-polish hundreds per ipad for a docviewer? This shit doesn't need to be online. It doesn't need to phone home. It doesn't need facetweet reddiblrgram integration. It doesn't need automatic updates. It doesn't need Access To Your Photos And Contacts. It doesn't need achievements. It doesn't need to stream to your youtube blog.

    It doesn't need any app-bricking shit. It doesn't even need any app-crashing shit, which is a harmless term that means "reboot and you're good".

    You don't need a $500 tablet to look at a fscking .txt, or even a pdf. Maybe then you could afford some redundancy. $100-200 for a second device? Or how about just the $1 for a second docviewer app.