Killer Flight Displays 1
The phone conversations between Sam Fleishman and myself continue around themes in my forthcoming Murder By Computer.
Sam: "How could those Boeing 737 pilots landing...
Posted August 2, 2010 | 17:38:59 (EST)
The phone conversations between Sam Fleishman and myself continue around themes in my forthcoming Murder By Computer.
Posted July 12, 2010 | 19:13:38 (EST)
The phone conversations between Sam Fleishman and myself continue around themes in my forthcoming Murder By...
Posted June 28, 2010 | 22:05:10 (EST)
The phone conversations between literary agent Sam Fleishman and myself continue around themes...
Posted June 1, 2010 | 16:10:35 (EST)
Air France 447 plaintiffs' attorney Steven Marks: "There's no question that this aircraft's instrumentation, warning and autopilot systems were...
Posted May 4, 2010 | 16:08:52 (EST)
Mr. O'Brien: "But there is nothing about Buffalo or...
Posted March 15, 2010 | 11:34:23 (EST)
British CAA Exposes Egocentric Cockpit Computer Designers
This is your brain on a cockpit computer. Any questions?
The phone conversations between literary agent Sam Fleishman and myself continue.
Sam: "You showed...
Posted February 28, 2010 | 22:42:39 (EST)
Posted February 9, 2010 | 22:33:44 (EST)
The phone conversations between literary agent Sam Fleishman and myself continue.
Sam: Not that I doubt you, John, but I need to see hard proof that the FAA or Congress didn't follow...
Posted January 11, 2010 | 10:01:43 (EST)
Sam: "I just watched the video again. Let's recap your last two posts. In...
Posted December 11, 2009 | 17:04:06 (EST)
There will always be another software bug; never trust human life solely on software.
-- Dr. Nancy G. Leveson, MIT
John's literary agent Sam Fleishman asks about the Boeing 777 rogue computer you can read and watch here.
Sam: "You write, 'At 0:46, you hear a siren...
Posted November 17, 2009 | 14:59:51 (EST)
"Never trust human life solely on software." -- Dr. Nancy G. Leveson, MIT
Dateline: August 2005. Imagine that you're the captain of this Malaysia Air Boeing 777. You can be challenge the computers thanks to this Aardvark2zz video:
Posted November 3, 2009 | 16:57:18 (EST)
Air France VPs -- Scientists Smackdown
"Air France tells pilots to shape up, stop blaming equipment." Seattle Post-Intelligencer
In a strongly-worded six-page memo titled, "Enough polemics and false debates on flight safety!" Air France Air Operations Director Pierre-Marie Gutron and Security Chief Etienne Lichtenberger warned pilots...
Posted October 21, 2009 | 15:57:12 (EST)
Australian TV reporter Ross Coulthart's investigation into the tragedy aired last Sunday night. I invite you to watch it here (by scrolling through "Featured Videos" and clicking on the "Scare bus" icon).
Reporter Coulthart refers to an early-warning episode aboard Quantas Flight 72.
Aviation Week October...
Posted September 30, 2009 | 15:20:26 (EST)
John T. Halliday Pilot, Author, Murder By Computer: The Hidden Perils Of Air Travel
The fourth of a series dedicated to the 228 lost souls and their families.
Dr. Aisling Butler of Ireland -- no more.
My conclusions about the causes of the Air France 447 tragedy have...
Posted September 16, 2009 | 20:00:28 (EST)
HAL -- THE COCKPIT SERIAL KILLER
As I watched the Ground Zero bell toll during Friday's 9/11 ceremonies, I thought of Flight 11's Captain John Ogonowski, whom I'd handed the plane's "keys" to many times in Boston. I thought about my copilot who never recovered from coming face-to-face with Mohammed...
Posted September 6, 2009 | 12:49:40 (EST)
Governments and Industry Ignored the Warning Signs
To: The Honorable Robert A. Sturgell, Acting FAA Administrator
Copy: European Aviation Safety Agency
Subject: NTSB Safety Recommendation
Date: July 22, 2008
On January 25, 2008, a United Airlines A320 lost three of six cockpit electronic flight displays after takeoff from Newark...
Posted August 25, 2009 | 17:03:18 (EST)
The following is excerpted from the author's manuscript, Murder By Computer.
Imagine you're the captain. The computer climbed your state-of-the-art computerized Airbus A330 to 35,000 feet, leveled off, then its autothrottles set cruise thrust. You're in clouds this pitch-black night, dodging thunderstorms your color radar depicts so beautifully....
Posted November 15, 2010 | 19:13:06 (EST)