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Software Glitch Caused Crash of Airbus A400M Military Transport Aircraft

Posted by Soulskill on from the complexity-breeds-failures dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A software glitch caused the crash of an Airbus A400M military transport aircraft, claims German newspaper Der Spiegel (Google translation). The accident, which happened in Seville on the vehicle's first production test flight on 9 May, killed four crew members. Airbus is investigating the system controlling the aircraft's engines. The early suspicions are that it was an installation problem, rather than a design problem.

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  1. what about MH-370 and airasia 8501? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    what about MH-370 and airasia 8501?

    Airasia has reports of them doing a hard reset of the system right before the crash.

    MH-370 has talk of hacking / remote control.