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Jesus, that article contains an ungodly amount of annoying padding. TLDR; Plane makes two steep dives within 3 minutes without apparent mechanical failure or p
by dtech 9y ago
Jesus, that article contains an ungodly amount of annoying padding.
TLDR; Plane makes two steep dives within 3 minutes without apparent mechanical failure or pilot intervention, injuring a number of passengers. Plain manages a safe emergency landing.
Dives were initiated by a flight computer, which could override pilot input, reacting to faulty data. No one died, but some persons have lasting physical damage.
- johansch 9y agoYeah, that was annoying to read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_72 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_72 Root cause: a fault with one of the plane's three "Air Data Inertial Reference Units": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_data_inertial_reference_unit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_data_inertial_reference_un... This error condition then exposed a bug in the aircraft's software which caused the dives.