Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Flight 447: Killer microprocessor !
A case started in a California district court on behalf of some of the relatives who died when an Air France flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1 2009.
"The microprocessors and other component parts designed and manufactured by Intel were defective when they left the custody and control of Intel, and a proximate cause of the crash," the filing says.
Microprocessors and other components "failed to adequately filter out inaccurate data and provided erroneous information; the microprocessors used in the flight control computers, ADIRUs and other components prevented the installed software from functioning properly and created inaccurate data" and so failed "properly detect and warn of the accumulation of ice on the aircraft".
"The microprocessors and other component parts designed and manufactured by Intel were defective when they left the custody and control of Intel, and a proximate cause of the crash," the filing says.
Microprocessors and other components "failed to adequately filter out inaccurate data and provided erroneous information; the microprocessors used in the flight control computers, ADIRUs and other components prevented the installed software from functioning properly and created inaccurate data" and so failed "properly detect and warn of the accumulation of ice on the aircraft".
THIS LINK posted by Joseph Bell : 7:54 AM
