Flight disruption warning as Airbus requests modifications to 6k planes

Re:Flight disruption warning as Airbus requests modification... by chasing0entropy on Friday November 28, 2025 @08:05PM (#46084352)

I would say its pretty detailed -an unknown interference caused a single crc protected 32 bit word to be corrupted simultaneously, by timestamp, in both the flight controller hardware and the black box data recorder.

My concern would be what error correction mechanism did or did not catch the corruption in memory and why did it not recover without critical impact to operations?

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Re:Flight disruption warning as Airbus requests modification... by fooker on Friday November 28, 2025 @08:17PM (#46084425)

> corrupted simultaneously

This sounds like a software bug.

Something like - {copy a to b, checksum a--b}

Instead of - {copy a to t, checksum a--t, copy t to b, checksum a--b}

I bet the fix is along these lines, with the caveat of real time systems/etc.

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