http://www.switched.com/2008/01/22/was-wi-fi-behind-the-777-crash-in-london/ Switched Comments for Was Wi-Fi Behind the Boeing 777 Crash In London? http://www.switched.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.switched.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.switched.com/2008/01/22/was-wi-fi-behind-the-777-crash-in-london/http://www.switched.com/2008/01/22/was-wi-fi-behind-the-777-crash-in-london/Jan 22nd 2008 11:27AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/01/22/was-wi-fi-behind-the-777-crash-in-london/http://www.switched.com/2008/01/22/was-wi-fi-behind-the-777-crash-in-london/Jan 22nd 2008 11:36AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/01/22/was-wi-fi-behind-the-777-crash-in-london/http://www.switched.com/2008/01/22/was-wi-fi-behind-the-777-crash-in-london/Jan 22nd 2008 11:55AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/01/22/was-wi-fi-behind-the-777-crash-in-london/http://www.switched.com/2008/01/22/was-wi-fi-behind-the-777-crash-in-london/Jan 22nd 2008 12:33PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/01/22/was-wi-fi-behind-the-777-crash-in-london/http://www.switched.com/2008/01/22/was-wi-fi-behind-the-777-crash-in-london/
So, how do you command both engines to shut down if the pilots didn’t do it? Easy, the flight-control system likely told the engines to shut down and they properly obeyed. Normal shutdown involves opening the guard on a guarded switch and then turning it off. Nowadays, such switches are not really switches, but addresses on a bus. Somehow the triply-redundant flight-control computers determined that the switches were turned off. Note that three identical computers, all running the same version of software, do not constitute a triple-redundant system! Boeing’s 777 website does not even discus this issue. Perhaps the flight-control system is not triple-redundant because it has mechanical override capabilities –except for the engines, of course, --oops!

]]>Jan 22nd 2008 3:15PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/01/22/was-wi-fi-behind-the-777-crash-in-london/http://www.switched.com/2008/01/22/was-wi-fi-behind-the-777-crash-in-london/Could it be that a EMP was used pointed ahead of his path to the aitport to knock out any road side bomb using a Cell Phone to trigger it?
The 777 was only 600' in the air at the time and with the wheels down that part of the plane is open so that a pluse could get into the wiring?

WiFi would not have the power to do this.
Someone should talk to the guy that was working on his Car at the time the 777 went over him. What was wrong with his car was it also hit?? He said it was a dead battery??

Somebody check if the path the PM took to the airport would line up with the 777 at the time it happened.

If it was a EMP they are never ever going to say so.

We are using computers way to much in places that they are not needed. We are risking lives on parts that a little static spark can destroy.

This kind of thing has happened to aircraft but it will never be in the news.
Remember the cops have things that can burn out electronics in the cars we have today.]]>Jan 22nd 2008 5:13PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/01/22/was-wi-fi-behind-the-777-crash-in-london/http://www.switched.com/2008/01/22/was-wi-fi-behind-the-777-crash-in-london/
There is no "growing speculation" at all, only a growing number of media outlets prepared to sell-out by propagating a completely unfounded story which lacks any kind of evidence. Talk about cheap journalism.]]>Jan 23rd 2008 4:37AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/01/22/was-wi-fi-behind-the-777-crash-in-london/http://www.switched.com/2008/01/22/was-wi-fi-behind-the-777-crash-in-london/Jan 23rd 2008 1:54AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/01/22/was-wi-fi-behind-the-777-crash-in-london/http://www.switched.com/2008/01/22/was-wi-fi-behind-the-777-crash-in-london/Jan 23rd 2008 9:22AM