[Year 12 SofDev] Another software failure story

[timmer at westnet.com.au]

	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.

	 

	Regards

	Robert T-A

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For those of you collecting juicy stories of software failure:
 A group of American fighter planes go braindead in 2007 when crossing
the international date line because their computers got confused.

 
http://www.dailytech.com/Lockheeds+F22+Raptor+Gets+Zapped+by+International+Date+Line/article6225.htm
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