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Humble Pi: plane wrong

2019-02-26

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More on the Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center mistake:

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/16/politics/maintenance-lapse-blamed-for-air-traffic-control-problem.html

More on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner mistake:

https://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2015/05/boeing-787-dreamliners-contain-a-potentially-catastrophic-software-bug/

CORRECTIONS

- If you watch very closely: I misspoke twice while filming and fixed it in post. See if you can spot them!

- Not a correction, but more of a fun fact: the plane that flies over me at the start is an A380. How amazing would it have been if it was a Boeing 787‽

- Nothing else found yet. Let me know if you spot anything!

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