5 Apr
1999
5 Apr
'99
1:44 p.m.
At 21:05 05/04/99 -0400, Max Eskin wrote:
I have heard of Airbuses crashing because the controls
were poorly
designed. I've never heard of a 777 crashing. I've also never heard of any
medical machines failing, though this would tend to be underpublicized.
The standard example is a certain brand of radio-therapy system (used to
treat cancer) which would occasionally give a dose several thousand times
higher than specified (this was usually fatal). I have more details at work
if anyone really needs to know...
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