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tyingq | karma 59102 | avg karma 3.47 · 2019-08-07 22:25:54

Searched a bit more, and found this from 2018:

"Experts are still not sure of the root cause of the malfunction in the data unit, but subsequent software changes by Airbus mean any similar error in the future won’t lead to another terrifying nosedive."

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/terr...

Sounds like I guessed right.

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taneq | karma 28647 | avg karma 2.93 · 2019-08-08 08:51:15

Wow, "we don't know what went wrong but we're certain we fixed it!" That's nice and convincing...

teddyuk | karma 464 | avg karma 2.03 · 2019-08-08 11:36:10

and almost always turns out to be false :)

AstralStorm | karma 5566 | avg karma 0.91 · 2019-08-08 17:31:25+00:00

Nah. It's more like "we've added a permanent workaround".

madeofpalk | karma 21444 | avg karma 3.75 · 2019-08-08 22:48:04+00:00

Well I mean, there was two problems with that flight:

1) There was erroneous data

2) The erroneous data caused the plane to suddenly nosedive

2 was fixed - it's known why it dived and they fixed that from happening again. They still don't know what caused 1.

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