From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2009-03-05T12:18:39+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: This system must have been written in Ruby...

Kenneth Tilton wrote:

> "At 1950 feet (around 700 meters) the airplane's left altimeter
> suddenly and mistakenly registered an altitude of 8 feet (about
> 2 meters) below sea level and passed the reading on to the
> automatic control system, Van Vollenhoven said.
> 
> "But the autopilot reduced gas to the engines and the plane lost
> speed, decelerating until, at a height of 450 feet (150 meters)
> it was about to stall. Warning systems alerted the pilots.
> 
> ''It appears that then the pilots immediately gave gas, full
> gas, however it was too late to recover,'' ...The plane fell
> into a freshly plowed field, striking the ground tail first and
> breaking into three pieces."

Wasn't it programmed in Lisp?