In 1993, the Federal Government mandated that wind shear detection
and warning systems be installed on all aircraft by January 1,
1994. Yet a record seven hundred and ninety three people died in
wind shear related airplane crashes in 1994. The FAA tried to
explain away the wrecks by blaming faulty aircraft components. For
example, a thirty-seven cent screw in a rudder actuator was blamed
for the crash of a Boeing 737 near Pittsburgh on September 8th,
1994. As recounted in The Pattern, a handful of computer geeks knew
the explanations were wrong, and that a video game that relied on
polymorphic code was to blame. Exactly seven hundred and ninety
three people also died in thirty one separate crashes north of the
49th parallel between January 20, 2008 and September 28, 2008. The
notable list of victims of this cluster of crashes is remarkable.
Among those who perished were Alaska Senator Ted Stephens, a former
director of NASA, the CEO of a large defense contractor, the
President of Poland, the director of Poland's national bank, and
the MVP of the premiere Russian hockey league. The list of near
victims, who are classified as people who travelled on planes that
crashed within two days of having been flown by the near victims is
even more remarkable, including Prince William and Kate Middleton,
the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Stephen Harper, the Prime
Minister of Canada, David Johnston, the Governor General of Canada,
Andre Medvedev, President of Russia, and Bill Oefelein, former
space shuttle pilot. Most of the wrecks were explained to the
public by bad weather, pilot error, or faulty maintenance. Once
again, a surviving subset of that same handful of west coast
computer geeks know that these explanations are dead wrong.
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