Ironic Airways

October 19th, 2007 | 1 comment

Traveling to and from a software dev conference my flights were delayed due to software failures. Both times techs repeatedly rebooted the plane hoping the machine would heal itself.

Also on this trip the crew made the following announcement:

Unfortunately we’ve just learned that our toilets aren’t flushing. We apologize for the inconvenience… We will now be starting our beverage service…

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Tag(s): beverage service, software dev conference, software failures

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Comment from >steve
Time: October 19, 2007, 8:26 am

Thank god they haven’t decided to use windows for the avionics systems in planes yet

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