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To: wardaddy
The rest they sounded reasonable to me but the bird just wouldn’t respond

Fly by wire, die by software.

17 posted on 07/31/2011 9:50:15 AM PDT by null and void (Day 920. When your only tools are a Hammer & Sickle, everything looks like a Capitalist...)
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To: null and void
Fly by wire, die by software.

Yep, not to mention the possibility of malicious code, intentional or not.

24 posted on 07/31/2011 9:56:22 AM PDT by Errant
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To: null and void

I am unsure who was in charge during the stall - the computer, or the doomed pilots?

What flight control commands were executed, and which were ignored?


44 posted on 07/31/2011 10:18:39 AM PDT by patton (I am sure that I have done dumber things in my life, but at the moment, I am unable to recall them.)
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To: null and void

When the computer says land you land ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYHJLH_ewRY


111 posted on 07/31/2011 5:09:00 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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