From: Mark Biggar <mark.a.biggar@home.com>
Subject: Re: software failure question
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 13:16:02 GMT
Date: 2001-04-07T13:16:02+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ACF132F.95DD191A@home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9Pxz6.992$ix4.198187@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com
tmoran@acm.org wrote:
>
> Anyone know where this came from?
> "In one infamous software error, a misplaced minus sign resulted in a
> fighter jet's control system flipping the aircraft on its back whenever
> it crossed the equator. "
It was the fly-by-wire software for the F-16. Fortunately,
this error was caught in simulation and no planes were actually
flipped. For more info, you might want to look in the risks-digest
report database "http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks". The bug in question
can be found easly by searching on "equator".
--
Mark Biggar
mark.a.biggar@home.com
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-07 5:44 software failure question tmoran
2001-04-07 10:22 ` chris.danx
2001-04-07 10:28 ` chris.danx
2001-04-09 15:24 ` Smark
2001-04-10 13:31 ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-10 16:01 ` Smark
2001-04-07 13:16 ` Mark Biggar [this message]
2001-04-07 13:41 ` Larry Hazel
2001-04-07 21:55 ` Ken Garlington
2001-04-09 13:54 ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-07 13:52 ` Ken Garlington
2001-04-09 18:13 ` Phaedrus
2001-04-09 20:57 ` Ted Dennison
2001-04-10 1:38 ` Phaedrus
2001-04-10 15:39 ` Ted Dennison
2001-04-11 12:12 ` Colin Paul Gloster
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