Sunday Times (London) 9th January 2000

'Millennium bug' strikes plane

A SUSPECTED millennium bug fault has struck a British Airways jet. The Boeing 777, en route to Dubai from London, was stranded on the runway at Heathrow yesterday after the cockpit computer crashed and defied attempts to restart it. BA said the incident was just a glitch. Up to 200 passengers waited for five hours before the aircraft was replaced with another Boeing 777.

In the same issue, the story on the crash of the Korean Air cargo plane at Stanstead has "However, an airline technical director said the fault really lay with the computer feeding the ADI (altitude director indicator), the internal navigation unit"

-- qb (quantumbubbles@yahoo.com), January 09, 2000

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Thank goodness they were on the ground!

-- Hokie (Hokie_@hotmail.com), January 09, 2000.

Do you have the link for this story...? Thnx

-- Lady Bug (LadyBug@Bubble.Com), January 09, 2000.

Does anyone know the URL link to the SUNDAY TIMES (LONDON)?

-- Bayou Boy (BayouBoy@bayou.com), January 09, 2000.

May be OT Northwest jet headed for Japan from detroit with 400 on board shuts down one engine,

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000109/ts/japan_plane_1.html

-- (Somewerepress@aol.com), January 09, 2000.

link to sunday times

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/Sunday-Times/frontpage.html? 999

-- Alex The Italian (alexcapr@yours.com), January 09, 2000.

The Sunday Times

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), January 09, 2000.

The article is not there.

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), January 09, 2000.

Can somebody post a direct link...? At the site now but dont see it.. Thnx

-- Lady Bug (LadyBug@Bubble.Com), January 09, 2000.

Hi! qb: No offense intended, but unable to verify your info. Did you hand-type this in from a hardcopy edition? I cannot find this info anywhere on the Times website. Do you have a link? Otherwise, it will be interpreted as "heresay".

-- Trust_But_Verify (verifier@linkplease.com), January 09, 2000.

Yes This was hand-typed from today's hardcopy. Both stories are in the main section of newspaper. No scanner available otherwise I would post the scanned article. Can someone else from the UK confirm? qb

-- qb (quantumbubbles@yahoo.com), January 09, 2000.

qb: Do either of the stories have a wire reference, i.e. ap, upi, reuters? If so, we could check out their websites.

-- Lisa (lisadawn@yahoo.com), January 09, 2000.

'Millennium bug' hits aircraft

A SUSPECTED millennium bug fault has struck a British Airways jet. The Boeing 777, en route to Dubai from London, was stranded on the runway at Heathrow yesterday after the cockpit computer crashed and defied attempts to restart it. BA said the incident was just a glitch. Up to 200 passengers waited for five hours before the aircraft was replaced with another Boeing 777.

-- Uncle Bob (UNCLB0B@AOL.COM), January 09, 2000.

The story is in the News In Brief section. This is the URL http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/Sunday-Times/stinwenws01032.h tml?999

-- Kath (wingy@sprint.ca), January 09, 2000.

I posted this on a different thread also: Last Friday I was listening to Seattle Air Traffic control when I caught part of a conversation between a controller and a commercial airliner. The controller had asked the pilot to perform some alteration in his flight and the pilot responded "my computer cant even find Detroit". They then made an alternate way to perform the required course correction.

-- Ann Fisher (zyax55a@prodigy.com), January 09, 2000.

Thanks qb and everyone else for helping track and verify news report.

Question: Does anyone know what would cause a message to appear in my browser in straight text that said !check user or user check? Happened while trying to open index at Sunday Times site.

-- Lisa (lisadawn@yahoo.com), January 09, 2000.

Going to the link, I got We can't find this page You asked for a page which we can't send you at the moment. You may have asked for a page which doesn't exist, or you may have left out part of the URL. Please try again, or get more information on how we have changed the navigation on the website. I had received this as an email msg also from Leon Kappelman,who is IMO reliable...

odd the story has disappeared

-- sr (sr@sr.com), January 09, 2000.

Use the hyper link above. Then go to "Today's Index" then to News "Briefs". I just double checked, it's still there.

-- Lisa (lisadawn@yahoo.com), January 09, 2000.

Ann

How are you able to listen to ATC? Online?

-- Rachel Gibson (rgibson@hotmail.com), January 09, 2000.

These are the contents of the 'News in Brief' section of the London SUNDAY TIMES for January 9th, 2000. If you have difficulty accessing the current edition, go to this LINK and select January 9th as the edition you wish to view]

January 9 2000 BRITAIN

French to renew lorry blockade

MILITANT French transport unions plan to cause renewed disruption at Channel ports from tomorrow as lorry drivers block British and European competitors in protest at a 35-hour working week being imposed in France. The chief agitators behind the new strikes are Reni Petit, president of the FNTR road transport union, and Jean-Paul Deneuville, his secretary-general. Deneuville said that up to 3,000 French lorries were expected to form the blockade.

IRA to order dumping of arms

THE IRA is prepared to order its members to "dump arms" as a prelude to decommissioning, according to sources in Northern Ireland. The terrorist organisation will make the offer this week to John De Chastelain, the retired Canadian general overseeing decommissioning. He is expected to give a start date, possibly in the week beginning Monday, January 31. 'Millennium bug' hits aircraft

A SUSPECTED millennium bug fault has struck a British Airways jet. The Boeing 777, en route to Dubai from London, was stranded on the runway at Heathrow yesterday after the cockpit computer crashed and defied attempts to restart it. BA said the incident was just a glitch. Up to 200 passengers waited for five hours before the aircraft was replaced with another Boeing 777.

Pbti warning

THE health department has advised visitors to the Continent not to eat Rillets or Langotines pbti. The warning comes after two people died in France of suspected listeria poisoning from eating pbti.

Seven lottery bids SEVEN bidders intend to bid to run the national lottery from next year. They include Sir Richard Branson. Camelot, the current operator, has teamed up with the Post Office in its attempt to retain the licence.

Pigeon shoot death

A field sports enthusiast accidentally killed his friend with a shotgun during a pigeon shoot near Stapleford Tawney in Essex. The 34- year-old victim, who had not been named, died instantly from head wounds.

Welsh MP resigns

THE Plaid Cymru MP Cynog Dafis is quitting parliament to concentrate on his membership of the Welsh assembly. A by-election in his Ceredigion seat in west Wales is likely next month.

Border curbs

BELGIUM is to tighten its border controls to keep out illegal immigrants during a temporary amnesty for those already in the country.

Twins for MP

TESS KINGHAM, 36, Labour MP for Gloucester, has given birth to twins. The boy and girl are called Karl and Natasha.

Seeing the light

THE council in Hove, East Sussex, has moved its sunshine measuring instrument out of the shade after a resident complained it was giving bafflingly low readings.

Familiar voice

A MIDDLE-AGED Italian man from Trento who called an erotic chatline discovered that the woman at the other end of the line was his wife.

Coma mystery

IRISH and Peruvian authorities are trying to identify a man in a coma in Lima. He was injured in a hang-gliding accident. He is thought to be Irish having uttered the word "Patrick".

Animal attraction

BRIGITTE BARDOT, the actress, has offered to help the Russians draw up animal welfare laws.

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-- John Whitley (jwhitley@inforamp.net), January 09, 2000.

Ummm...use this LINK instead.

-- John Whitley (jwhitley@inforamp.net), January 09, 2000.

Rachel Gibson...try this

http://www.oz.net/~gmcavoy/sw_scanr_audios.html

Sorry, can't link.

Opus

-- Opus (Opus@Bloomcounty.net), January 09, 2000.

Thanks, Opus. That's quite a site!

-- Rachel Gibson (rgibson@hotmail.com), January 10, 2000.