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Surely the real root cause here is that their systems are overloading the title field with age assumptions at all, rather than their heuristic being wrong? Give
by rlpb 6y ago
Surely the real root cause here is that their systems are overloading the title field with age assumptions at all, rather than their heuristic being wrong? Given that the age information is safety-critical, it should be passed through as a separate field directly. Doing anything else is error prone, as demonstrated in this case.
I'm disappointed that the AAIB did not identify this.
- alexgmcm 6y agoYeah - I'm amazed this is the first comment that has brought it up. If you need to identify the passenger as child/adult (especially for something as safety critical as this) then it should be its own field.
- jfengel 6y agoEspecially since the title field is completely useless for distinguishing male adults from male children. The entire calculation is valueless. It feels like something is missing from this story.
- alexgmcm 6y agoAren't male children referred to as Master? It sounds terribly old fashioned though.
- sgerenser 6y agoIf I recall from booking airline tickets (in the long, long ago), you always have to enter your birthdate to book the ticket in the first place. Why wouldn't that information just be used to determine child/adult?