How faulty software has left society on the edge of disaster
When a routine Air Canada flight came in to land at San Francisco on a July evening in 2017, it missed a lethal disaster by just 13 feet.
Unaware that one of the airport’s runways was closed, the pilot – exhausted after 19 hours awake – had attempted to land on a taxiway on which four other planes were lined up awaiting liftoff.
Had he not noticed his error and pulled up in time, the crash could have been more deadly than the 1977 Tenerife Airport disaster, in which two Boeing 747s collided on a foggy runway, killing