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An Ethical Statement on Incidents

June 27, 2009 Peter Ladkin

Donald Gotterbarn and Keith W. Miller wrote on a Software Engineering Code of Ethics in the June 2009 edition of IEEE Computer magazine. They illustrate the application of their principles with some case studies, including Case Study 2: Who Is… Read moreAn Ethical Statement on Incidents

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AF 447 ACARS: A Mistake with a Life of its Own

June 14, 2009 Peter Ladkin

Here is yet another indication of how things can get a life of their own:- Soon after the France 2 program showing the ACARS transcript messages on 4 June, someone on the pilot’s forum PPRuNe typed them up, and posted… Read moreAF 447 ACARS: A Mistake with a Life of its Own

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AF 447 ACARS Messages: Reading Tea Leaves

June 11, 2009 Peter Ladkin

A list of the 24 ACARS messages listed by Air France that were sent from AF 447 between 0210Z and 0214Z on 1 June, 2009, the last information received from the aircraft, was shown on the France 2 TV channel… Read moreAF 447 ACARS Messages: Reading Tea Leaves

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The Crash of Air France flight 447 on 1 June 2009: introduction

June 10, 2009 Peter Ladkin

On the morning of June 1, 2009, Air France Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil to Paris failed to make any contact with Air Traffic Control after about 0200Z (“Zulu” time is UTC, so two hours behind Paris… Read moreThe Crash of Air France flight 447 on 1 June 2009: introduction

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The crash of GOL 1907

October 5, 2006 Peter Ladkin

Sometime round about 16:00 local time on Friday 29 September, an Embraer Legacy jet on a delivery flight on airway UZ 6 in the Mato Grosso of Brasil collided with an object which took away most of a winglet and… Read moreThe crash of GOL 1907

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