A Boeing 737 flight from Bristol to Gran Canaria with 163 passengers on board narrowly avoided disaster due to a serious software glitch. The plane barely cleared the runway by ten feet and narrowly passed over a nearby A-road. Boeing VP Mark Nappi stated that the hardware worked great and the issue is not a software problem, but rather due to the data conditions being input into the software that need further understanding.
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Boeing VP Mark Nappi, on the RCS jet shutdowns, says the hardware "worked great" and it's "not a software problem" either, but that it's due to the data conditions "we're putting into the software that need to be understood a little bit more." https://t.co/nCcWbRTjek