
Episode 1823 • • 2:28:49 - 2:32:23
1823: Secretary of Egg
Airbus Firmware Issues and Solar Radiation Bit-Flipping
A computer engineer provides a "boots on the ground" report regarding grounded Airbus A320 aircraft. He explains that while solar radiation can cause "bit-flipping" in flight control systems, this is typically managed by lockstep processors and ECC memory. He suggests that a recent software update may have negligently bypassed these fundamental hardware checks, leading to the current safety issues.
