Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Typos: Now with Real-World Consequences!!

Here's a story from today's news about a plane failing to take off due to a typo!!

Apparently, the plane's first officer recorded the weight into the flight system as 262.9 tons, when in actual fact it was 362.9 ton.

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5431941/typo-caused-airbus-plane-tail+strike-during-takeoff-in-australia

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