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Jamie Lawrence (jamie@ruby.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Feb-2023 05:52:24 JST Jamie Lawrence

What I love about this story is:
- the immediate & categorical response: 2 tail strikes within 6mins = shutdown all Alaska Air flights
- no bureaucratic process: One individual made the decision
- “That looks about right” gut check of automated data
- software sucks but it sucks worse when lives are at stake
- this sort of incident response is a credit to the aviation field and should be a model for all
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/aviation/2023/02/20/after-alaska-airlines-planes-bump-runway-a-scramble-to-pull-the-plug/
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  After Alaska Airlines planes bump runway while taking off from Seattle, a scramble to ‘pull the plug’
  
  from @adndotcom
  
  Alaska’s flight operations staff quickly realized that a software bug was sending bad takeoff weight data to its crews. They immediately figured out a workaround and normal flying resumed.

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