Context for the CTO, CIO, CISO and Data Scientist
The Register is reporting that badly configured software, installed incorrectly, is responsible for the crash of an Airbus A400M transport plane. Engine control software, installed wrong, was to blame.
The A400M crashed just after takeoff on its first real production test flight, 9 May near Seville’s San Pablo Airport, killing four.
For the initial report on the software see: The Register.
For more background on the crash see: Wikipedia.
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In a continuation of our journey to bring the best, most actionable technology content to enterprise decision-makers we are merging our research and reporting activities into the OODAloop.com site (both CTOvision.com and OODAloop.com are owned and operated by OODA LLC). This will give our community access to the same technology summaries we currently produce as […]
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