"Just Kidding..."
Posted on 02/17/2020 11:45:33 AM PST by pa_dweller
Boeing's 737 Next Generation airliners have been struck by a peculiar software flaw that blanks the airliners' cockpit screens if pilots dare attempt a westwards landing at specific airports.
Amid the various well-reported woes facing America's largest airframe maker, yet another one has emerged from the US Federal Aviation Administration; a bug that causes all pilots' display screens in the 737-NG airliner family to simply go blank.
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the airbus stockholders on FR will now proceed to lose their minds about the wrong airplane.
This is beginning to sound like industrial sabotage, or the result of hiring off shore to code the software.
That’s not a bug, it’s a feature!...................
And if the aircraft is approaching too fast for landing, the software cuts all power, forcing the aircraft to nose dive into the ground.
“That bug kicks in when airliner crews try to program the autopilot to follow what the FAA described as “a selected instrument approach to a specific runway”.
Seven runways, of which five are in the US, and two in South America - in Colombia and Guyana respectively – trigger the bug. Instrument approach procedures guide pilots to safe landings in all weather conditions regardless of visibility.
“All six display units (DUs) blanked with a selected instrument approach to a runway with a 270-degree true heading, and all six DUs stayed blank until a different runway was selected,” noted the FAA’s airworthiness directive, summarising three incidents that occurred on scheduled 737 flights to Barrow, Alaska, in 2019.
Code is written in Iowa.
;)
Bug? Sounds like a deliberately programmed in feature. Do they have a record of which software engineer programmed and verified each packages? Of course not. They are all in India or something.
Never would have happened if code to program the software was done by a farmer!
Are the planes not supposed to land from that direction?
It would be a huge misunderstanding from the programmers, yes, but if a pilot approached the runway from the “wrong” direction, it would be a really bad feature for the screen to just go dark.
Coding done in China?
Can anyone explain how this is even possible?
Glass cockpits are pretty nice but only as good as the programmer and the circuitry. Analog is still your friend.
But not necessarily by Iowans.
And if the aircraft is approaching too fast for landing, the software cuts all power, forcing the aircraft to nose dive into the ground.
I would assume it is a side effect of a spyware program, designed to monitor certain airfields.
sounds like hindu muslim software thing
Prayers 5 times a day facing east. Explains everything.
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