Some American Airlines planes are grounded because the pilots’ iPads crashed
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Re: Some American Airlines planes are grounded because the pilots’ iPads crashed
#2Better their ipad, than their airplanes ;) (Sorry for the reddit-like comment, couldn't resist!)
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#3Can anybody here estimate the money lost due to late flights, crews, etc? I don't know where to start from but I'd love to compare it with the costs of keep using paper.
Re: Some American Airlines planes are grounded because the pilots’ iPads crashed
#4Can anybody here estimate the money lost due to late flights, crews, etc? I don't know where to start from but I'd love to compare it with the costs of keep using paper.
I'd like the estimate to include money and time lost by passengers, but that's probably hoping for too much.
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#6Don't forget about the savings for American Airlines. No more paper maintenance manuals, saving lots of weight, on every flight. The ipad powering down will probably result in a claim to the supplier of the ipads. Of course it is embarrassing, but think of the environmental benefits of saving all that weight.
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#7I understood it was illegal to depend on electronic equipment in the air?
Re: Some American Airlines planes are grounded because the pilots’ iPads crashed
#8I understood it was illegal to depend on electronic equipment in the air?
"Was" being the correct word; airlines have become more and more lenient with that, and I'm sure airplane manufacturers do better shielding and error correction.
Re: Some American Airlines planes are grounded because the pilots’ iPads crashed
#9I understood it was illegal to depend on electronic equipment in the air?
Pretty sure they use a couple transistors and integrated circuits in planes now.
There may be a few requirements for testing and approval of electronics however.
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Actually this seems extraordinarily unlikely. Your proposition is that a no-iOS zone was maliciously created in multiple highly secure and surveilled areas across the country (ie airports) but despite the fact that the hack should affect all iOS devices in range, there were no reports whatsoever of any passenger devices (nor the pilots iPhones for that matter) being disabled.