Airbus A400M crash due to software glitch

Posted on 8 Jun 2015 by Michael Cruickshank

A fatal aircraft crash last month in Spain has been revealed to have been caused by improperly installed software.

The Airbus A400M Atlas, a military transport plane, crashed on 9 May in Spain, causing the deaths of 4 people onboard. According to new reporting by German newspaper ‘Handelsblatt’, Airbus Chief Strategist Marwan Lahoud has explained that the crash happened due to a “quality issue in the final assembly” of the craft’s software. What this…

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