> I was just at a lecture where General Heuboldt (sp?), a 3-star in the > pentagon, mentioned that the latest V22 Osprey failure was "due to software > sending an incorrect signal to the hydraulics". He had no more details. The news announcement I saw said "The cause relates to a hydraulic system failure followed by erroneous software inputs to the flight-control system." The difference in wording would seem significant. > Since the V22 was, at least at one time, programmed in Ada, I am most > curious to track down the source of this failure and whether it occurred > within code programmed in Ada. ...don't know; maybe someone else can comment? -- C. Daniel Cooper ==========v=================v=======================v Adv Computing Technologist | processes | All opinions are mine | 206-655-3519 | + architectures | and may not represent | [log in to unmask] | = systems | those of my employer. | ===========================^=================^=======================^