This story has been kicking around the internet for awhile, but man oh man oh man is it worth a read. Test pilot Bill Weaver was flying an SR-71 Blackbird on an experimental evaluation flight when a malfunction at Mach 3.18 caused the plane to literally tear apart. Yet somehow, Weaver survived.
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Friday afternoon, at about 1:40 pm EST, a passenger jet flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing disappeared from radar screens and lost radio contact with air traffic control. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which was scheduled to land four hours later, was carrying 227 passengers, including two infants, and 12 crew members.
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Pure destruction. Top Gear wanted to see exactly what happens when a train smashes into a car stuck on the railroad tracks so they set up a test of their own: they put a minivan on the tracks and pummeled it with a speeding train. It gets pretty brutal.
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A small plane headed for a landing at LaGuardia Airport instead made a landing on the Major Deegan Expressway in the Bronx this afternoon. Though three people were inside, only one had a minor injury. Not bad.
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Back in July, Asiana Flight 214 crashed at San Francisco International Airport. Now, the National Transportation Safety Board has explained that the accident occurred because the pilot didn’t understand the plane’s computerized auto-throttle system.
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After putting its rovers on Mars, Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Lab showed the world that billion dollar hardware isn’t always the answer. And researchers at the EPFL
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Want to watch a copter crash live and guilt-free? Of course you do. Well you’re in luck: NASA is serving one up right now.
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A Boeing 777 is on fire at San Francisco International Airport. The emergency slides have deployed, though it is not immediately clear what caused the crash and conflagration, nor if there are any injuries.
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The University College London now has a computer that is said to never crash. We’ve all experienced it: computers do crash, so what makes this particular one impervious to crash events? To explain that, let’s look at why computer crash to start with: at the highest (and simplest) level, computer programs are a linear sequence of instructions, that are executed in order. If for some reason, the execution stops (divide by zero, memory access fault…), that particular program will crash. Usually the Operating System (OS) can recover from that, and terminate that crashed task. Sometime, the crash takes out the OS itself too (that’s the BSOD or Blue Screen of Death on Windows, and of course other systems experience that too from time to time). (more…)
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