This should become a classic development story. A software bug that showed up only under heavy usage led two flights to suffer tail strikes on takeoff. Alaska Air’s on-duty director of operations recognized it as an intolerable coincidence and stopped all of the airline’s flights nationwide. Sanity checks by pilots quickly pointed to bad weight data as the culprit, and the incident led to a needed improvement in the software’s tests.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/after-alaska-airlines-planes-bump-runway-a-scramble-to-pull-the-plug/

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