FAO Scy11a, Crazyscot

[zotz]

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Risks Digest 24.93
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:24:51 -0600
From: Peter G Neumann Subject: Nitrogen Used To Fill Aircraft Oxygen Systems

Comments

[scy11a]

*yawn* old news. Been round the block on Pprune already. A pal of mine watched as a work experience guy attempted to fill a hydraulic accumulator with oxygen instead of nitrogen. Hydraulic fluid is highly flammable under heat and pressure...
More scary is the story about hackers and the new B787 Dreamliner

[zotz]

That's not entirely new news either.

You've come across Windows for Warships, I take it?

[scy11a]

No?

[zotz]

A subsidiary of BAe is standardising the control systems for British warships on Windows 2000.

[lsur]

Reassuring or what? Lucky it wasn't hydrogen or we'd all be talking in a high-pitched voice.