Comment on Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 3 days agoYeah, but the problem is, they don’t. They didn’t think it would be a problem and now it’s a fucking problem.
Comment on Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 3 days agoYeah, but the problem is, they don’t. They didn’t think it would be a problem and now it’s a fucking problem.
Devial@discuss.online 3 days ago
It happened once, to one aircraft, and it’s solvable with a software update.
You’re more likely to be struck by lightning the next time you leave your house than to run into this problem on a flight, and that was before the software update.
chillpanzee@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Not even once according to the article. They don’t actually know what happened on that flight, but their simulations can’t test test for cosmic radiation and didn’t reveal any other errors, so they presume it must be the cause. Then made up a story about that being a day of heavy day of solar activity, which the article refutes.