No, the airlines statement has to standup to the FAA investigation should there be one, and the scrutiny of Sarbanes-Oxley per the truth of corporate statements made by management. The Pilots have reported to their bosses. TWEETS mean nothing. As we've said you believe rumors, from people who report HEARSAY. That does not hold up anywhere.
You haven't heard from the pilots. You've heard hearsay from passenger's tweets. I pointed out that those tweets have to be incorrect at least in one way with the "24 minutes" claim. I might believe 24 seconds, but not "24 minutes" but that gives you an example of the problem with hearsay. Both pilots are supposed to have their charts up and running at the same point in the check list, not 24 minutes separation. People do not remember exactly what was said even a few minutes later. The articles and YOU are reporting what the TWEETS said, not the pilots, because that's ALL they had to report on because the Airline had not yet said what happened. Now the airline has made a statement of exactly what happened after finding out exactly what happened and solving the problem, explaining how it was caused, and how they handled it!
What part of downloading a PDF to the iPad for the glitched chart did you fail to see? What part of providing paper charts for the ONE airport that they did not have a corrected chart for, did you also fail to see? You keep wanting to make a major case out of an easily solved problem. What part of no other flights were cancelled did you fail to read? What part of it was easily handled by downloading a new version of the app and a new database do you fail to understand?
You do not want to accept all of that. YOU want to blame Apple for something that was not Apple's fault at all.
Tell me, Mad Dawgg: What interest does American Airlines have in protecting Apple's iPads over Jeppeson Avionics as the cause of this incident? I am pretty sure American Airline's yearly licensing fees to Jeppeson Aviation for up-to-date Charting data for out weighs the costs of buying all the iPads for every pilot and co-pilot in their employ. These licensing fees are what keep Jeppeson Avionics in business. Give me one good reason why American Airlines would choose to denigrate Jeppeson Avionics, a company with which they have a far more intimate relationship, than the American Airlines has with Apple inc, and instead blame Jeppeson, the company they have an almost daily relationship with—a company whose product is required for AA's business to operate—to protect the reputation of the product of a company that merely supplied the platform for that software?
Your absurd theory fails right there.
The tech news writers whores do it EVERY TIME.
The only "to be fair" statement one can make is that they do it not just about Apple, but celebrities and politicians, too. Some movie star's ex-husband's second-cousin's boyfriend gets a DUI, and somehow they manage to work the movie star's name into the headline.
Some application program that happens to run on iPad does an update and crashes, and the headline ONLY says "iPad". Where is the name of the people who are actually responsible for it? Oh, they didn't put that in the headline...
Whores. Not even good whores, either.
And folks who read it will get the mistaken impression, especially if they don't read thoroughly.
And folks who don't like Apple will flock to it to bash Apple. Stupid, but you can't fix stupid.
It used to be Microsoft that was fodder for the headlines, remember? Every damn broken third-party application on Windows (and MS-DOS before it) that crashed and burned was written up as a black eye for Microsoft and Windows/MS-DOS. I'll bet the folks in Redmond throw parties for the folks in Cupertino, to thank them for taking over as the press' whipping boy.
And the merry-go-round comes around again, and again, and again...
Bwahh hahah you assume that you know something other than what was reported based on your assumption that what you assume can't be true...
A.K.A. circular logic fallacy. And BTW no where in the American Airlines press does it say the units did not power down.
They only say the app glitched and not exactly how that glitch manifested Sparky. You are using half truths and faulty logic to try and bull your way past the simple fact that Apple iPads glitched and the planes were grounded.
It is fact and no manner of Apple Fanboi verbal gymnastics can change it.
And that makes you crazy and you worry about it because now its a matter of history and you will cringe each time its brought up that Apple failed once again...
And that my friend makes me and the Baby Jesus laugh and laugh and laugh...