Re: Disobeying jet engines - why?

Didi wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7206596.stm

we have here at least one guy who will probably know what must
have happened - not sure he will be able to tell us, of course.

Anyway, to me this sounds like some popular office OS has made its
way into the cockpit and was out for lunch with the HDD while the
pilot
was trying to talk it into delivering his commands to the engine
controllers...

Nope. The closest Windows gets to the flight controls is through various
I/O ports used during manufacturing and maintenance procedures.

There is a problem with this. Back when I was at Boeing, we had a hell
of a problem convincing some of the engineers and techs that the same
laptop they were using to upload firmware updates to various systems
SHOULD NOT be taken off the property. Like home, where the kids can goof
with it, download virii, spyware, etc.

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