Seat belts and software bugs

[denverpilot]

Airbus has determined the cause of three separate "nose dive" incidents was due to faulty software code handling data from sensors.

Of course, the 60 people unbuckled in cruise all got bounced off the ceiling, and that's listed as a "cause" also...

But letting one bad sensor override two good sensors sending sane data, makes me think this was one VERY sloppy piece of code...

http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/australia/6163633/Qantas-terror-blamed-on-computer

 

[murphey]

Airbus has determined the cause of three separate "nose dive" incidents was due to faulty software code handling data from sensors.

Of course, the 60 people unbuckled in cruise all got bounced off the ceiling, and that's listed as a "cause" also...

But letting one bad sensor override two good sensors sending sane data, makes me think this was one VERY sloppy piece of code...

http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/australia/6163633/Qantas-terror-blamed-on-computer

Windows Vista?

http://www.apollosoftware.com/products/flybywire/flybywire_english.pdf

But seriously folks,

http://www.davi.ws/avionics/TheAvionicsHandbook_Cap_12.pdf

 

[flyingcheesehead]

Ugh.