Fault Tolerance Versus Fault Containment When you design a fly-by-wire system (FBW) and hook it up to a central nervous system and then plug in a brain, it's prudent to ensure that brain failure or dementia will not cause system "death", paralysis or Parkinson's Disease. For the crew of 9M-MRG, a MAS 777-200 departing Perth Western Australia on Aug. 1, 2005, they didn't know what to think. The book had failed them. The designers of their fault tolerant and fault-contained…
In The Grip Of The Gremlins
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