Boeing 787s must be turned off and on every 51 days

theregister.com

8 pointsseesawtron4 comments

(2020)

My favorite mention in the article is a previous bug where selecting a STAR route with exactly 14 waypoints caused the system to freeze and go blank.

Discussion from back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22761395

What a disa-STAR

Same symptoms and same solution to integer overflows on timers used in the software on other Boeing aircraft (iirc).

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