irelephant [he/him]🍭M to iiiiiiitttttttttttt@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months agoPeople are painful.lemm.eeimagemessage-square179fedilinkarrow-up11.54Karrow-down121
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minus-square@SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink19•2 months agoI was watching a documentary about a plane that crashed, killing everyone on board, because someone left tape on a pitot tube during maintenance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroperú_Flight_603.
minus-square@SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink9•2 months agoTerrifying. Fortunately, I was not working on safety-critical systems at the time. Now I am, so this is a great case study. The article glosses over whether or not Boeing was even partially found at fault. In my opinion, this was a major design flaw on their part.
minus-square@SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink4•2 months agoHere is the documentary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceXSwstXo6A
minus-square@AtariDump@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•edit-22 months agoIce crystals in the pitot tube: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447 Wasps nest in the pitot tube: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birgenair_Flight_301 Pitot tube blocked by tape: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroperú_Flight_603
I was watching a documentary about a plane that crashed, killing everyone on board, because someone left tape on a pitot tube during maintenance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroperú_Flight_603.
Terrifying.
Fortunately, I was not working on safety-critical systems at the time. Now I am, so this is a great case study.
The article glosses over whether or not Boeing was even partially found at fault. In my opinion, this was a major design flaw on their part.
Here is the documentary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceXSwstXo6A
Wish it were an article.
Ice crystals in the pitot tube:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447
Wasps nest in the pitot tube:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birgenair_Flight_301
Pitot tube blocked by tape:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroperú_Flight_603