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The News Letter "In the News" column draws attention to recent news events which have a bearing on systems safety, and which readers may have missed, or may wish to comment on. Issues raised there are intended to be thought-provoking and controversial: the aim is to encourage discussion and reflection within the Community. The articles referenced are included in this discussion board. Please use this to share your opinions and comments, and to engage in discussion!
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Post Office and Fujitsu chief executives face grilling by MPs on Horizon scandal The chief executives of Post Office and Fujitsu are set to be questioned by MPs over the Horizon scandal next week. Parliament’s Business and Trade ...	0	Jan 15th
Alaska Airlines grounds 737 Max 9 planes after section blows out mid-air Alaska Airlines says it has returned some of its grounded Boeing 737 Max 9 jets to service after one of its planes lost a section of fuselage ...	0	Jan 14th
Tesla recalls 120,000 vehicles over doors that could unlock in crash Tesla is recalling just over 120,000 Model S and Model X vehicles in the United States over the risk of doors being unlocked and opening during a ...	0	Jan 14th
IT failures causing patient deaths, says NHS safety body Urgent action is needed to address NHS computer failings which are causing harm to patients, the patient safety watchdog has told BBC News. The watchdog ...	0	Jan 14th
Japan Airlines: Coastguard plane not cleared for take-off, transcripts show A coastguard aircraft involved in a fatal collision at Tokyo's Haneda airport was not cleared for take-off, Japanese authorities have said. The ...	0	Jan 14th
Beta Technologies Flies Electric Aircraft Across The Border To Canada Vermont-based electric aircraft developer Beta Technologies flew its Alia prototype into Montréal on Wednesday. According to Beta, this was the first ...	0	Oct 3rd 2023
Safety warning after Devon boat passenger left paralysed The paralysis of a passenger on a rigid inflatable boat (RIB) ride has prompted a safety warning to operators. The Marine Accident Investigation Branch ...	0	Sep 30th 2023
Self-driving car systems were involved in 400 crashes since 2021 - 273 were Teslas Federal regulators found that self-driving AI systems were involved in almost 400 car crashes in the last year, with Teslas accounting for 70 per cent of ...	0	Sep 30th 2023
NATS report into air traffic control incident details root cause and solution implemented NATS’ preliminary investigation has confirmed the root cause that led to last Monday’s air traffic control incident, and the company has ...	0	Sep 30th 2023
Newcastle Hospitals says computer error lost patient letters A hospital trust failed to send out 24,000 letters from senior doctors to patients and their GPs after they became lost in a new computer ...	0	Sep 30th 2023
Light Show Drones Fail and Plunge into Water in Melbourne Drones fell from the sky and plunged into the Yarra River during a light display ahead of a Matildas' soccer match at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne. More than ...	0	Aug 5th 2023
Google alert failed to warn people of Turkey earthquake Google's earthquake warning system failed to get to many Turkish residents before February's deadly tremor, a BBC Newsnight investigation has ...	0	Aug 5th 2023
Anger and fear after popular diabetes app breaks People with diabetes using a popular app have lost their usual way to check blood sugar, after an update caused it to stop working on some Apple ...	0	Aug 5th 2023
Loophole which meant Titan sub which imploded ‘missed important safety checks’ The Titan submersible that imploded in the Atlantic Ocean may not have needed to pass the same safety tests to which similar vessels are subjected because ...	0	Aug 5th 2023
Flying car receives FAA credential, could be available by 2025 The dreams of flying cars may finally be coming true. Alef Aeronautics, an advanced technology company backed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, can begin ...	0	Aug 5th 2023
Three arrested in India over train crash that killed nearly 300 people Three men have been arrested in India over a triple-train collision that killed nearly 300 people last month, one of the worst rail accidents in the ...	0	Aug 5th 2023
FAA system outage On January 11, 2023, U.S. flights were grounded or delayed as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) attempted to fix a system outage. FAA paused all ...	0	May 11th 2023
Toyota suspends sales of Yaris model in Thailand after safety test problem Japanese carmaker Toyota Motor Corp has stopped sales and deliveries of its Yaris Ativ in Thailand, senior officials said on Monday, after its affiliate ...	0	May 11th 2023
Air France and Airbus cleared of involuntary manslaughter over 2009 crash The families of victims of France’s worst air disaster said they were devastated after a Paris court cleared Air France and Airbus of manslaughter charges ...	0	May 11th 2023
Norfolk Southern’s Ohio Train Derailment Puts Railroad Equipment Sensors in Spotlight The derailment of a Norfolk Southern Corp. train in a small Ohio town last month is putting renewed attention on the role of sensors ...	0	May 9th 2023
Final report on Boeing 737 MAX crash sparks dispute over pilot error The long-delayed Ethiopian government report into the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 that killed all 157 people on board laid blame solely on ...	1	Apr 11th 2023 by: R Rivett
People who skipped their COVID vaccine are at higher risk of traffic accidents, according to a new study If you passed on getting the COVID vaccine, you might be a lot more likely to get into a car crash. Or at least those are the findings of a new ...	0	Jan 8th 2023
GM’s Cruise robotaxi unit faces safety probe after three accidents The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating three crashes involving driverless taxis operated by General Motors’s Cruise, just ...	0	Jan 8th 2023
B-2 nuclear bomber fleet grounded amid search for safety defects All 20 of the Air Force’s B-2 Spirit bombers are grounded as the service hunts for potential safety defects, a spokesperson confirmed. The stealth ...	0	Jan 8th 2023
Boeing wants autonomous flying cabs in US airspace by 2030 Boeing's vision of future mainstream travel includes automated uncrewed passenger-carrying electric aircraft operating as taxis, and on Tuesday it ...	0	Sep 22nd 2022
£270k fine after fatality involving mobile elevating work platform A Lincolnshire based manufacturing company that specialises in lifting and handling equipment has been fined after an employee died after falling with a work ...	0	Sep 3rd 2022
KLM 737 used whole runway for take-off after intersection data slip-up Pilots of a KLM Boeing 737-800 did not amend a runway intersection designation when recalculating take-off performance data for Amsterdam Schiphol, leading ...	0	Sep 3rd 2022
UK to Have World’s Longest Drone Superhighway The UK government has announced it has given the go-ahead to for the world’s largest and longest network of drone superhighways to be built in the UK. ...	0	Sep 3rd 2022
AIP launch new guidance on the safety of autonomous systems ...	1	Sep 2nd 2022 by: P Williams
NHS employees warned to expect three weeks of disruption as a result of a cyberattack Health officials have issued a warning that a hack on Advanced, a British software and managed services provider with 25,000 customers, has severely ...	0	Sep 1st 2022
India accidentally fires missile into Pakistan India says it accidentally fired a missile into Pakistan on Wednesday, blaming the incident on a "technical malfunction" during routine ...	0	May 6th 2022
Nuclear Safety in Ukraine 'Seriously Jeopardized on Several Occasions'—IAEA Nuclear safety in Ukraine has been "seriously jeopardized on several occasions" since the start of the Russian invasion in February, according to ...	0	May 6th 2022
Head of Hokkaido tour boat operator: Fatal accident could have been avoided The president of a tour boat operator in Hokkaido Prefecture, northern Japan, has stated in a document that a fatal accident last month could have been avoided ...	0	May 6th 2022
Pilot and Instructor Faulted in Crash that Destroyed $64M Global Hawk A drone pilot and an instructor at Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D., failed to realize an RQ-4 was 4,000 feet too high as it started its final approach and ...	0	May 2nd 2022
Tesla recalls second batch of cars in China on safety concerns US car giant Tesla has recalled more than 14,600 cars in China over a software fault that could lead to safety risks, the country's market regulator said on ...	0	May 2nd 2022
China Eastern resumes Boeing 737-800 flights after March crash China Eastern Airlines has started putting its Boeing 737-800 jetliners back in use for commercial flights less than a month since a crash killed 132 people and ...	0	May 2nd 2022
Collision between passenger trains at Salisbury Tunnel Junction Preliminary findings for the collision involving two passenger trains at Salisbury’s Fisherton Tunnel, concludes that the failure of one train to stop at ...	0	Jan 21st 2022
Smart motorway rollout suspended amid safety concerns The rollout of smart motorways has been suspended by the government until at least 2025 in response to safety concerns from MPs and motoring ...	0	Jan 17th 2022
Drone Helps Save Cardiac Arrest Patient in Sweden For the first time in medical history, a drone has played a crucial part in saving a life during a sudden cardiac arrest. The world unique achievement took ...	0	Jan 10th 2022
Covid-19: Researcher blows the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial Revelations of poor practices at a contract research company helping to carry out Pfizer’s pivotal covid-19 vaccine trial raise questions about data ...	0	Dec 1st 2021
FAA bans Virgin Galactic launches while probing Branson trip The Federal Aviation Administration says Virgin Galactic can't launch anyone into space again until an investigation is complete into founder Richard ...	1	Oct 4th 2021 by: B Jepson
Report details how Airbus pilots saved the day when all three flight computers failed on landing Airbus is to implement a software update for its A330 aircraft following an incident in 2020 where all three primary flight computers failed during ...	0	Sep 22nd 2021
Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped When covid-19 struck Europe in March 2020, hospitals were plunged into a health crisis that was still badly understood. “Doctors really didn’t ...	0	Aug 30th 2021
Warship positions faked including UK aircraft carrier A carrier strike group led by HMS Queen Elizabeth had its automatic identification system (AIS) position faked, researchers discovered. AIS is a key ...	0	Aug 30th 2021
Confusing NOTAMs led overrun 747 crew to believe longer runway was unavailable Investigators probing the overrun that destroyed a Boeing 747-400F at Halifax have highlighted the contribution of poorly-presented NOTAM information to the ...	0	Aug 30th 2021
Blame in Italy cable car deaths rests with technician who disabled emergency brake, judge rules The three suspects in Italy's cable car disaster that killed 14 people were allowed to leave prison Sunday after a judge indicated that most of the ...	0	Jun 30th 2021
'Self-driving' cars to be allowed on UK roads this year The Department for Transport said automated lane-keeping systems (ALKS) would be the first type of hands-free driving legalised. The technology controls ...	0	May 5th 2021
Software flaw led to 'serious incident' on Tui flight A "simple flaw" caused by a language difference led to a "serious incident" for a flight from Birmingham last year. All female passengers ...	0	Apr 12th 2021
Covid: Man offered vaccine after error lists him as 6.2cm tall A man in his 30s with no underlying health conditions was offered a Covid vaccine after an NHS error mistakenly listed him as just 6.2cm in height. Liam ...	0	Apr 12th 2021
Goodwood Will ‘Carefully Consider’ Future Flying Car Demonstrations After Airspeeder Crash The aviation club based at Goodwood Motor Circuit has said that any future drone or flying car displays will be carefully considered in line with new official ...	0	Feb 20th 2021
Subtle thrust-lever shift may have caught out Sriwijaya 737 crash crew Preliminary findings from the Sriwijaya Boeing 737-500 crash probe increasingly support an in-flight upset scenario in which the crew was suddenly caught out by ...	0	Feb 20th 2021
Mercedes recall more than one million popular road cars after safety tool glitch Mercedez Benz has issued a recall for more than one million cars over a problem with the vehicle's emergency call system which could be a safety ...	0	Feb 20th 2021
Why flight safety faces new dangers during downturn One uncomfortable aspect of the extraordinary crisis inflicted on air transport operations is the extent to which the pandemic might, at some point, be ...	0	Jan 16th 2021
Police probes compromised after computer records deleted Police investigations have been compromised by an error that led to hundreds of thousands of records being deleted from UK-wide databases, according to a ...	0	Jan 16th 2021
Sriwijaya Air crash places Indonesia's aviation safety under fresh spotlight Indonesia’s poor air safety record is again in the spotlight after a Sriwijaya Air jet carrying 62 people crashed into the Java Sea minutes after ...	0	Jan 16th 2021
The ten worst Covid data failures Throughout the pandemic, the government and its scientific advisers have made constant predictions, projections and illustrations regarding the behaviour of ...	0	Jan 16th 2021
Boeing 737 Max flights resume After two crashes killed 346 people, the Boeing 737 Max is back in service in the US and Brazil. The American flight follows the Federal Aviation ...	0	Jan 16th 2021
Stonehaven train derailment: Crash investigators confirm train struck landslip The driver, conductor and a passenger died when the 06:38 Aberdeen to Glasgow service crashed near Stonehaven. The RAIB said the train had turned back ...	1	Dec 6th 2020 by: A SAKSENA
Covid: Test error 'should never have happened' The health secretary has said a technical glitch that saw nearly 16,000 Covid-19 cases go unreported in England "should never have ...	1	Oct 18th 2020 by: M Thomas
'Assisted Driving Grading’ unveiled in new car safety tests Thatcham Research and Euro NCAP have launched brand-new ‘Assisted Driving’ assessments of vehicles in order to give motorists crucial insights in ...	0	Oct 2nd 2020
Uber's self-driving operator charged over fatal crash The back-up driver of an Uber self-driving car that killed a pedestrian has been charged with negligent homicide. Elaine Herzberg, aged 49, was hit by the ...	0	Oct 1st 2020
First death reported following a ransomware attack on a German hospital German authorities are investigating the death of a patient following a ransomware attack on a hospital in Duesseldorf. The patient, identified only as a ...	0	Oct 1st 2020
Ethernet failure on Swiss business jet prompted emergency descent An Ethernet failure aboard popular Swiss-made business jets could prompt the aircraft to move into an emergency descent as flight systems entered a ...	0	Oct 1st 2020
Beirut blast: City explosion causes widespread damage On 4 August 2020, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of the city of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, exploded, causing at least 181 ...	0	Aug 28th 2020
Coronavirus: Public Health England to be scrapped Public Health England (PHE) is being scrapped as part of plans for a new organisation responsible for dealing with pandemics, the health secretary has ...	0	Aug 28th 2020
Air India Crash Investigators Focus On a Dangerous Runway and a Pilot’s Actions As investigators sought the cause of a jetliner accident that killed 18 people, blame began to fall on the pilot and the hilltop ...	0	Aug 28th 2020
Drones to deliver NHS supplies to IoW A Windracer Ultra, will be used to carry NHS Supplies to the Isle of Wight. 4 autonomous flights per day over a fixed route are ...	0	Apr 28th 2020
Boeing's 'culture of concealment' led to fatal 737 Max crashes, report finds A “culture of concealment”, cost cutting and “grossly insufficient” oversight led to two fatal crashes of Boeing 737 Max aircraft that ...	0	Apr 28th 2020
Coronavirus: Can we trust the data? Barely a day goes by in the lifecycle of the coronavirus pandemic without a new model or analytical tool aiming to chart the spread or predict the outcome. ...	0	Apr 28th 2020
'Of course it could happen again': experts say little has changed since Deepwater Horizon A massive deepwater oil spill is nearly as likely today as it was in 2010, experts warn, 10 years after the disas-trous explosion of BP’s rig in the Gulf ...	0	Apr 28th 2020
Self-driving car dataset missing labels for pedestrians and cyclists A popular self-driving car dataset for training machine-learning systems – one that’s used by thousands of students to build an open-source ...	0	Apr 28th 2020
Self-driving Uber car that hit and killed woman did not recognize that pedestrians jaywalk A self-driving Uber car that struck and killed an Arizona woman wasn't able to recognize that pedestrians jaywalk, federal safety investigators ...	0	Nov 13th 2019
Tesla Car Safety Increased In Q3 2019 To Record Level Autopilot is helping. According to the latest Tesla safety report, during the third quarter of 2019, Tesla cars set a new all-time record of avoiding an ...	0	Nov 3rd 2019
Clutha crash inquiry: 'Pilot took risk with fatal consequences' An inquiry into the helicopter crash which claimed the life of a police officer from Inverclyde and nine other people has found that ...	0	Nov 3rd 2019
Lion Air 737 MAX Final Accident Report Cites AOA Sensor, MCAS Among Multitude of Contributing Factors Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) published its final 322-page accident investigation report on the October 2018 Lion Air ...	0	Nov 3rd 2019
Kubernetes Failure Stories Although none of these appear to be safety critcial, this is an interesting collection of failures from mostly IT and cloud ...	0	Feb 22nd 2019
Liability for autonomous vehicles The recent reports concerning autonomous vehicle safety coincide with extensive debate in the US, and also in the UK, as to where legal - and insurance - ...	3	Mar 18th 2018 by: M Thomas
Autonomous vehicles In recent months, there has been a considerable amount of publicity concerning the safety of autonomous vehicles. In February, Google acknowledged the first ...	3	Mar 18th 2018 by: M Thomas
Tumbledrier fires The UK Local Government Association, which speaks for Fire Service personnel, has recently drawn attention to an increasing number of house fires caused by ...	0	Sep 30th 2016

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