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Ken Garlington wrote on
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 01:44:14 GMT
- |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| |""singlespeeder" <singlespeeder@32sixteen.com> wrote in message | |news:9aq517$79g$1@neptunium.btinternet.com... | |: | |: <pab49162@hotmail.com> wrote in message | |: news:djPz6.9$kb.47845@news1.i1.net... | |: | |: > 4. I would probably disagree with your comment "this breaks a pretty | |: > impressive string of successes by the industry". Over the last ten | |years | |: or | |: > so, there have been a fair number of incidents which were the direct | |: result | |: > of the errors in the system-level design of an air vehicle's flight | |: control | |: > system. The ones that come immediately to mind include the crash of the| |: > YF-22 prototype in 1992, the crash of the JAS-39 Gripen on flight 6 in | |: 1989, | |: > the crash of a second JAS-39 at an air show in 1993 and the crash of the| |: > DarkStar unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on flight 2 in 1996. | |: > | |: | |: or the FADEC failure that allegedly brought down the Chinook on the Mull | |of | |: Kintyre in 1994. | | | |Of course, it has not been definitively established that there _was_ a FADEC| |failure related to this accident, only speculation as to the possibility | |AFAIK. See http://www.cw360.com for more information (search for "Chinook").| |Therefore, it's premature to include this as an example. (I exclude this by | |using the term "no-kidding" in my full statement, which was: | | | |"...it looks like we may have a no-kidding, post-test, primary flight | |control software bug that led to a fatality. This breaks a pretty impressive| |string of successes by the industry, IMO."" | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Alex Thompson reported on the U.K.'s Channel-4 "News" tonight that
Liam Fox said that dead Chinook pilots were scapegoated over their
deaths which happened on June 2nd, 1994. Liam Fox said that instead
e.g. software could have caused this crash's deaths.
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