After Alaska Airlines planes bump runway, a scramble to ‘pull the plug’

Re:After Alaska Airlines planes bump runway, a scramble to ‘... by sudhirj on Saturday February 18, 2023 @02:12PM (#34850028)

Not according to the article, the values returned were within the realm of possibility, but wrong. Giving out zeroes might have actually been fine, it’s easy enough to realise there’s a problem if you see your plane weighs 0 pounds.

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Re:After Alaska Airlines planes bump runway, a scramble to ‘... by basch on Saturday February 18, 2023 @02:44PM (#34850311)

Hence “some part of a value.”

Such as weight=plane+fuel+people+luggage. If one of the variables became 0 you’d still have the other 3.

It was a low enough value to have made multiple pilots question its value that day, like fuel or passenger load was missing completely.

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Re:After Alaska Airlines planes bump runway, a scramble to ‘... by advisedwang on Saturday February 18, 2023 @02:46PM (#34850335)

I mean it might be just one part. E.g. luggage gets counted as zero but passenger weight, fuel weight and aircraft weight correct - that might be pluausible but low.

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