+ - Amsterdam plane crash caused by software bug?
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laughingskeptic
laughingskeptic writes "The automatic pilot apparently powered down the engines at 2000 ft altitude because
one input,
the altimeter, told it the plane had landed.
A modern plane has a number of inputs
from which the 'landed' status could be determined and it seems to me that it is a major
bug for one of them to be taken as the controlling input in a situation like this."