<html><body style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><p>This is reminiscent of a story reported in The Australian 1989 (yes, I trawled thru' my old newspaper clippings to check) of testing the F-16 inertial guidance system. Fortunately it was in simulation that the bug was discovered and not actual flight; whenever the aircraft crossed equator it inverted - I guess someone didn't account for a minus sign.</p><p> </p><p>Regards</p><p>Robert T-A<br /><br /></p><blockquote><br />----- Original Message -----<br /><div style="background:rgb(228,228,228);width:100%;"><div style="font-weight:bold;">From:</div> "Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List" <sofdev@edulists.com.au></div><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">To:</div>"Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List" <sofdev@edulists.com.au><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Cc:</div><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</div>Sat, 11 Oct 2014 11:16:15 +1100<br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</div>[Year 12 SofDev] Another software failure story<br /><br /><br /><div dir="ltr">For those of you collecting juicy stories of software failure:<div><br /></div>
<div>A group of American fighter planes go braindead in 2007 when crossing the international date line because their computers got confused.<br clear="all" /><div><br /></div>
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