Re:Preliminary report into Air India crash released
by yongjik on Friday July 11, 2025 @09:06PM
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Now you created a fuel system cutoff control inhibition system which may malfunction in its own ways, e.g., refuse to cut off fuels from a burning engine because it thinks the plane is too low due to faulty altimeter reading.
Re:Preliminary report into Air India crash released
by dboreham on Friday July 11, 2025 @09:04PM
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Sounds good, but I'm not sure I trust Boeing outsourced software developers to implement that absolutely correctly.
Re:Preliminary report into Air India crash released
by ExoticPearTree on Saturday July 12, 2025 @02:45AM
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> The danger of a burning engine is irrelevant if you are heading into terrain.
Not quite. When you hit the ground you do not want any fuel leaks or hot surfaces as much as possible. That is why for example engines are shutdown when doing an emergency belly landing, to try abd prevent the airplane from bursting into flames.
Re:Preliminary report into Air India crash released
by ufmace on Saturday July 12, 2025 @10:52AM
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I don't think so. A moderately hard landing with an engine(s) smoldering because they were on fire but had their fuel cut off is probably survivable for most of the passengers. A moderately hard landing with the engine(s) a raging inferno pouring burning fuel all over the place because the fuel couldn't be cut off or took too long to do so is much less survivable.
Putting complex and fallible restrictions on safety-critical controls like fuel cutoff is usually a bad idea overall.
The danger of a burning engine is irrelevant if you are heading into terrain.