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Old 18th Jun 2009, 16:11
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carjockey: I thought the Times chose a rather sensationalist headline by referring to the "main suspect" as a "computer bug". While some hardware or software bug has not been ruled out, what the article text really talks about is the possibility the flight control system was receiving erroneous information from the sensors rather than a computer bug per se. As someone mentioned many msgs ago GIGO, garbage in, garbage out. It is quite possible that had a human computer been given the same information and situation that AF447 faced he/she may not have reacted any better.
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