TY,
A Google search for Dakota problem didn't even come close ;-)
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alistair Holmes" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: EMIS Bug?
> Jeff Green wrote:
> > Alistair,
> > Dakota?
> The Dakota problem
> About 9 months after the end of hostilites (WWII) there where a series of
> aircraft losses, about a dozen in 3/12 around the world and they were all
> Dakota's (DC3's) the Dept of Transportation could find no pattern in the
> losses and with the Air Ministry considered grounding the aircraft until
> the problem became clearer, fortunately someone with a mathmatical bent
> asked the question, how many of the airframe hours worldwide are being flown
> by DC3s? the answer was huge something like 92% When reanalysed over a
> longer timeframe it became clear that it was and still is one of the safest
> aircraft ever built, but at that time if you saw an aircraft in the sky it
> was highly likely to be a DC3 thus if there was an incident it was liklely
> to be a DC3.
> In my patch most Have EMIS LV, a Couple have GV I have PCS and a couple of
> practices have something else, if you worked here and this happened it would
> almost certainly (<90%) be an EMIS practice (assuming equal probability of
> the event off each system)
>
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