XZRS: Don Ledger - Swissair Flight 111
Jan 25, 2019 ·
43m 18s
Airliners are one of the most complex, technologically driven, pieces of equipment in the world. They are used to facilitate the movement of hundreds of millions of people around the...
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Airliners are one of the most complex, technologically driven, pieces of equipment in the world. They are used to facilitate the movement of hundreds of millions of people around the world every year. By the year 2000 they had exceeded one billion in the number of passengers they had carried-nearly one sixth of the world's population. By the early nineties the computer had taken hold of the sophisticated airliner's navigational, auto-piloting and systems monitoring and welfare control. The time was ripe then for the one thing that computers are vulnerable to -voltage fluctuations; either by electrical overloading or loss thereof. This is what happened to Flight 111. It all started with a short in a wire bundle, likely feeding the aircraft's passenger entertainment system situated a few feet behind the copilot. It ended when 229 people died in the cold waters of the North Atlantic four miles out from the lighthouse at pretty a little tourist attraction called Peggy's Cove in Nova Scotia.
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