[SubGeniusX]

scary .....

[driftdiver]

And that is why they test the things. Its simple but mulitply simple by a million and things get pretty darn hairy.

[Nathan Zachary]

Stupid

It's simple things that are ALWAYS the curse that brings down an otherwise suppurb accumulation of engineering.
Someone didn't start the KISS program

[justshutupandtakeit]

wow. Another reminder that the most complicated war machines can be brought down by dumbassed errors.

[JRios1968]

[Anti-Bubba182]

Every new system has glitches. It is the same, although with less disaster potential, with new car models or anything else.

[BenLurkin]

Good grief!

Well, "The fancier they make the plumbing..."

[llevrok]

what's next? The new daylight saving time zapping them?

[Jorge]

This is so stupid it's almost funny.

[Zeroisanumber]

"Who would have though that a state-of-the-art stealth jet could be so complicated?"

[JB in Whitefish]

Bill Gates will be releasing the NEW & IMPROVED RAPTOR F-22.1b pretty soon.

[comes with a free Zune, from what I understand...]

[Tallguy]

Wait till they cross the equator the first time & they transition from polywogs to shellbacks...

[brooklin]

Do these planes really have nothing"analog" on them for back-up at least?

This seems too stupid.

[Ramius]

Uh... this sounds like an urban legend to me. The dateline appears on maps, not in the air.

I can't see how it would have any effect whatsoever.

[staytrue]

U.S. Air Force to have to admit that their aircraft which cost $125+ million USD apiece were knocked out of the sky due to a few lines of computer code.

Cylons infiltrated the US defense dept.

[Candor7]

Sorry, I do not believe this quite.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Cool!

I love errors like this ... that get resolved by eyesite and VFR tactics.....

Sobering. Very, very sobering.

But remember, had this been a even more difficult mission (in space, trying to take out a colliding asteroid (remember the multiple errors that have wiped out several Martian and Venusian unmanned flights), or an uncomplicated military like stopping a plain merchant ship from mining LA harbor (oops - the China own that one, and THEY won't let it be mined) or Panama (nope, Chinese own that one too) or .....

People's flexibility, if they're properly trained - Armstrong flew the lunar lander away from boulders at the pre-programmed site! - can make up for many computer errors.

[RightWhale]

Got to hate it when this happens. Some low level programmer may have sent a memo on this problem five years ago and got his ears pinned back for thanks.

[b4its2late]

And we thought Y2K was nonsense.......

[BillM]

I have always carried a handheld GPS when I flew since they were made available.

It's awfully nice to have something that the aircraft and avionics designer don't know about!

Having said that, I hope they at least had a standby horizon!

[Paleo Conservative]

I thought issues like this were supposed to be discovered on the test bed. Someone's got some splainin' to do.

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