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UK air traffic control shut down after receiving unusual flight plan
- CaliforniaKarl 3y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401864 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401864 has the direct source (the NATS article & report)
- gumballindie 3y agoYeah software made in the uk is far from great. That’s why if you want high quality software you send work to east europe. Lots of contracts are now heading that way since the skilled labour cant come here.
- netsharc 3y agoHow do you know where the software was written? There's probably a high chance that it was outsourced several times to end up being written in... (insert whatever your stereotype prefers), but that's also just speculation on my side.
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- tulluk 3y agoThe report states the software came from Frequentis AG, of Austria
- gumballindie 3y agoWell not an exactly high standard in software quality country either. Should have sent it to east europe for something that actually works.
- N19PEDL2 3y ago> the system did what it was designed to do, i.e. fail safely when it receives data that it can't process I am no expert in air traffic control systems, but in a case like this, wouldn't it be better to simply reject the incorrect data and send a warning or something similar?