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Boeing 737 cockpit screens go blank if pilots land on specific runways
The Register ^ | 1/8/20 | Gareth Corfield

Posted on 02/17/2020 11:45:33 AM PST by pa_dweller

Boeing's 737 Next Generation airliners have been struck by a peculiar software flaw that blanks the airliners' cockpit screens if pilots dare attempt a westwards landing at specific airports.

Amid the various well-reported woes facing America's largest airframe maker, yet another one has emerged from the US Federal Aviation Administration; a bug that causes all pilots' display screens in the 737-NG airliner family to simply go blank.

(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 737; aviation; boeing
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Ruh Roh!
1 posted on 02/17/2020 11:45:33 AM PST by pa_dweller
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the airbus stockholders on FR will now proceed to lose their minds about the wrong airplane.


2 posted on 02/17/2020 11:46:46 AM PST by JohnBrowdie
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This is beginning to sound like industrial sabotage, or the result of hiring off shore to code the software.


3 posted on 02/17/2020 11:49:43 AM PST by Ingtar (Bedbugs, thy name is Democrat.)
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That’s not a bug, it’s a feature!...................


4 posted on 02/17/2020 11:50:02 AM PST by Red Badger (CWII is coming. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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And if the aircraft is approaching too fast for landing, the software cuts all power, forcing the aircraft to nose dive into the ground.


5 posted on 02/17/2020 11:52:00 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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“That bug kicks in when airliner crews try to program the autopilot to follow what the FAA described as “a selected instrument approach to a specific runway”.

Seven runways, of which five are in the US, and two in South America - in Colombia and Guyana respectively – trigger the bug. Instrument approach procedures guide pilots to safe landings in all weather conditions regardless of visibility.

“All six display units (DUs) blanked with a selected instrument approach to a runway with a 270-degree true heading, and all six DUs stayed blank until a different runway was selected,” noted the FAA’s airworthiness directive, summarising three incidents that occurred on scheduled 737 flights to Barrow, Alaska, in 2019.


6 posted on 02/17/2020 11:52:38 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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Code is written in Iowa.

;)


7 posted on 02/17/2020 11:52:49 AM PST by Does so (...Democrats believe in democracy when they win the election...)
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Bug? Sounds like a deliberately programmed in feature. Do they have a record of which software engineer programmed and verified each packages? Of course not. They are all in India or something.


8 posted on 02/17/2020 11:53:24 AM PST by AndyJackson
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Oh no! How can any real pilot be expected to fly an airplane without staring at a computer screen?
9 posted on 02/17/2020 11:56:24 AM PST by golux
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Never would have happened if code to program the software was done by a farmer!


10 posted on 02/17/2020 11:56:57 AM PST by TruthWillWin
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"Just Kidding..."







11 posted on 02/17/2020 11:57:43 AM PST by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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Are the planes not supposed to land from that direction?

It would be a huge misunderstanding from the programmers, yes, but if a pilot approached the runway from the “wrong” direction, it would be a really bad feature for the screen to just go dark.


12 posted on 02/17/2020 11:57:59 AM PST by scrabblehack
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Coding done in China?


13 posted on 02/17/2020 11:58:23 AM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: pa_dweller

Can anyone explain how this is even possible?


14 posted on 02/17/2020 11:58:54 AM PST by Widget Jr
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Glass cockpits are pretty nice but only as good as the programmer and the circuitry. Analog is still your friend.


15 posted on 02/17/2020 12:01:37 PM PST by llevrok (I'm a Boomer rube. Deplorable and proud!)
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To: Does so

But not necessarily by Iowans.


16 posted on 02/17/2020 12:02:20 PM PST by Ingtar (Bedbugs, thy name is Democrat.)
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And if the aircraft is approaching too fast for landing, the software cuts all power, forcing the aircraft to nose dive into the ground.


...but in the good way!


17 posted on 02/17/2020 12:02:31 PM PST by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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I would assume it is a side effect of a spyware program, designed to monitor certain airfields.


18 posted on 02/17/2020 12:04:58 PM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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sounds like hindu muslim software thing


19 posted on 02/17/2020 12:07:35 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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sounds like hindu muslim software thing

Prayers 5 times a day facing east. Explains everything.

20 posted on 02/17/2020 12:14:51 PM PST by IncPen ("Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out" ~ David Horowitz)
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