[M. Dodge Thomas]

There is a story about the F16 flipping to inverted flight after crossing the date line from years back.

Early versions of the F-16's software would have caused it to invert when it crossed the equator. The problem was discovered during simulations.

Considering it this was once a pretty famous "bug" - it was cited in a lot of presentations about software quality assurance - one can only conclude that a new generation of software engineers had never heard of it.

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The F-16 was also supposed to have been the aircraft with the almost-as-famous in the software industry "wheels up" programing error:

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/3.44.html#subj1

[Paleo Conservative]

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/3.44.html#subj1

[Mr.Unique]

One of the first things the Air Force test pilots tried on an early F-16 was to tell the computer to raise the landing gear while standing still on the runway. Guess what happened? Scratch one F-16. (my friend says there is a new subroutine in the code called 'wait_on_wheels' now...) [weight?]

Weight on wheels (WOW). I worked for GD back in 86-90. I've never heard such a thing. WOW is an interlock for the gear on all aircraft.