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Forum: Rumours & News

8th Jul 2013, 22:53

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Asiana flight crash at San Francisco

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Posted By DozyWannabe

Funnily enough, my old Prof. (who is sadly no...

Funnily enough, my old Prof. (who is sadly no longer with us) was very much of that mindset. In fact he was an out-and-out sceptic for years, and being a specialist in software reliability a lot of...

Forum: Rumours & News

8th Jul 2013, 15:00

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Asiana flight crash at San Francisco

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Posted By DozyWannabe

As a software engineer (albeit not aero/realtime)...

As a software engineer (albeit not aero/realtime) whose degree course included several modules where civil FBW specification, design and testing were examined in detail*, I can tell you that your...

Forum: Rumours & News

8th Jul 2013, 12:49

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Asiana flight crash at San Francisco

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Posted By DozyWannabe

No it wasn't, or at least guarding against...

No it wasn't, or at least guarding against mistakes was only one facet of the philosophy. The press seemed to focus on that to the exclusion of all else at the time though, presumably because the...

Forum: Rumours & News

8th Jul 2013, 03:24

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Asiana flight crash at San Francisco

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Posted By DozyWannabe

@AerocatS2A: That's a little harsh - he was...

@AerocatS2A:

That's a little harsh - he was of below average ability by all accounts, but by the very nature of the way statistics work, that's going to be true of 50% of all transport-category...

Forum: Rumours & News

8th Jul 2013, 02:33

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Asiana flight crash at San Francisco

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Posted By DozyWannabe

It's pretty obvious at this point that there's...

It's pretty obvious at this point that there's nowhere near enough publicly available data to support a "why" analysis, even if the "how" seems fairly clear. That said, I think we should all be...

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