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napolux ◴[] No.45036831[source]
The most deadly bug in history. If you know any other deadly bug, please share! I love these stories!
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NitpickLawyer ◴[] No.45036858[source]
The MCAS related bugs @ Boeing led to 300+ deaths, so it's probably a contender.
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solids ◴[] No.45036870[source]
Was that a bug or a failure to inform pilots about a new system?
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1. NitpickLawyer ◴[] No.45037108[source]
I would say plenty of both. They obviously had to inform the pilots, but the way the system didn't reset permanently after 2-3 (whatever) sessions of "oh, the pilot trimmed manually, after 10 seconds we keep doing the same thing" was a major major logic blunder. Failure all across the board, if only from the perspective of end-to-end / integration testing if nothing else.

Worryingly, e2e / full integration testing was also the main cause of other Boeing blunders, like the Starliner capsule.