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i choose "not"

jhefner said:
A co-worker of mine was on the first flight of the first of a new model, I think it was a 777, owned by that particular airline.

They had everyone on board, and I believe switched to internal power, when the captian came on the intercom and annonced they had a red light on the panel, and needed to check it out.

He then saw a ground crewman walk up to the plane underneath his window. He opened up a panel, pulled out a keyboard, and pressed some keys.

The lights and A/C inside the cabin flickered on and off. A few moments later, the ground crewman got the confirmation from the captain that all was well, put the keyboard up, closed the panel, and gave a thumbs up as he walked away.

Yep, he had rebooted the airplane's computers! The captain came on informing everyone they were good to go, and away they went.

-James
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One of the best known cures for fixing a set of computers on a certain weapons system I'm familiar with is purposefully crashing ACU complex. The 'fix' became so prevalent that it's now written into the tech data.
 
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