Reply to post: Shades of the Spanair disaster?

Woman dies after hospital is unable to treat her during crippling ransomware infection, cops launch probe

grumpyoldeyore

Shades of the Spanair disaster?

When Spanair flight number JK 5022 crashed in 2008 one of the "holes in the cheese" that lined up was that the maintenance database (or the computer systems attached thereto) had been infected with malware, which meant that it wasn't flagged that the plane in question had suffered multiple problems over several days and so should have been taken out of service on the first failed take off.

Subsequently the crew made a configuration error and theconfiguration warning did not sound, so the second take off attempt was made with fatal consequences.

https://www.theregister.com/2010/08/20/spanair_malware/

http://avherald.com/h?article=40b73189/0024&opt=0

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