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Three out of four A400M plane engines failed after data was 'accidentally' deleted on the computers that controlled each engine, causing the plane to crash and burn.
If you’ve ever deleted a vital piece of software, or had it flagged and accidentally quarantined by antivirus, then you know it can cause your computer to go crazy and even crash. When a plane’s vital software has been deleted, it too can crash; investigators suspect accidentally wiped computer files to be the cause of a military plane crash.
An Airbus A400M military transport aircraft crashed three miles from Spain’s Seville Airport on May 9, killing four of six crew members. The A400M was conducting a pre-delivery test flight before it was to be delivered to the Turkish Air Force in June. The $22.5 billion plane has four engines and each engine is run by a separate computer, called an Electronic Control Unit (ECU). The current theory being investigated involves the accidental deletion of computer files known as “torque calibration parameters.” Reuters reported the “computers operating each engine cannot work if this data, which is unique to each of the turboprops, is missing.”
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