From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2009-03-05T18:16:45+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: This system must have been written in Ruby...

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Tim Greer <tim@burlyhost.com> wrote:
> William James 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.
>
> Seems a bit hard to believe that the pilots wouldn't notice the plane
> reducing the fuel used and going to such a low altitude, due to an
> obvious malfunction, and have taken it out of auto pilot sooner and
> avoided the entire incident.  But, there's a reason why it sounds like
> a fake story.
Well maybe the pilots were as competent as the programmers/testers of
the system ;).