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AirAsia pilot flies to Melbourne instead of Malaysia after navigation error
- thisrod 10y agoHere's a better report. https://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2016/09/07/atsb-reports-cockpit-cockup-airasiax-flight-kl/ https://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2016/09/07/atsb-rep... The Guardian article misses the bits that are probably most interesting to HN: This kind of thing happens about once a month. The procedure that was supposed to prevent it was to use the up and down arrows instead of the keypad, because that way you can only stuff up a little bit. It took until 2013 for Airbus to patch the A330 navigation system to reject manually entered latitudes and longitudes that are inconsistent with the current GPS fix. Only a minority of the airliners in service installed the patch.