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Too many airplane systems rely on too few sensors

  • Written by Carlos Varela, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Planes have many sensors, supplying all kinds of useful data.vaalaa/Shutterstock.com

The apparent connection between fatal airplane crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia centers around the failure of a single sensor. I know what that’s like: A few years ago, while I was flying a Cessna 182-RG from Albany, New York, to Fort Meade, Maryland, my...

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