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Why is it clickbait? Change it to what? This seems like lazy, half-baked criticism.

• NikolaeVarius 5y ago
  And this is also half baked thoughts How about "Some Boeing 737's cant land on some runways due to programming issue" The current title is literally incorrect, they can all land due west just fine except for some particular runways
  • xbar 5y ago
    At worst, it is incomplete. It is not at all inaccurate.
  • civilized 5y ago
    Your version is just obscure. Obviously the problem has something to do with the 270 degree heading. Obviously the FAA is saying so. You're just making the headline confusing and uninteresting by omitting that. Making an interesting point with imperfect precision is better than failing to say anything interesting at all. I agree that "West" could have been improved by replacing with "some runways with a due West heading" but entirely dropping the interesting point, as the headline does now, is a cure worse than the disease.
• __te__ 5y ago
  The PDF has a four sentence summary. The lazy critic did not quite reach the second sentence, which literally prohibits a selection of planes from landing on some airstrips due to a dangerous software bug (the details of the bug, which airstrips, and sort of why, is in the rest of the article — but it's pretty clear the lazy critic didn't make it past the post here). If they'd read the whole PDF, they might have seen these bits: "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." And: "An unsafe condition exists that requires the immediate adoption of this AD without providing an opportunity for public comments prior to adoption." That's pretty serious, and indeed fits exactly with "some Boeing 737s can't land due West."
  • NikolaeVarius 5y ago