You are really something, driftdiver. You make this totally false and absurd claim with absolutely no evidence and you accuse ME of attempting to start a Flame war. Sheesh!
The evidence is that a computer, brand and OS unknown, but reasonable persons can draw their own conclusions, infected by a Trojan malware of unknown type, DID contribute to this tragedy. You spend a lot of posts trying to deny it. Evidence ALSO indicates that human error, most likely on the part of the co-pilot who was responsible for setting the condition of the flaps, was the proximate cause of the accident. Had the computer NOT been compromised, the evidence indicates it is likely the human error COULD have been caught before the accident occurred and 180 lives saved! It was not.
I would argue that a strong case of Felony Murder could be brought against the author of the Trojan that infected that piece of test equipment.
There is NO evidence that an Apple product of any kind had any contribution to this event at all. Your false claim is exactly the type of DELIBERATE FLAME BAITING tripe that Jim Robinson has made off limits on FreeRepublic. You posted it with sole purpose of attempting to get an intemperate response. I refuse to play.
Once again, the pilots caused the accident. You can try to blame all the other stuff but they didn’t do their job.
The reason the airline is trying to blame malware is to deflect liability. Like the pilots didn’t do their job, the maintenance crews failed in theirs as well.
In fact the maintenance team did their job so poorly there are some reports they will be charged criminally.
If no apple product was involved why have you started the old apple/windows wars? Why was apple even mentioned in this thread?
I don't give a hoot about operating systems. But, I fail to see how drawing a conclusion with no information can be reasonable. In fact, it would seem to be arbitrary - the opposite of reasonable.