A SOFTWARE “anomaly” was responsible for the crash of the Osprey tilt-rotor
aircraft and the deaths of four Marines last December, a high-level panel
appointed by the US Defense Secretary reported last week. But one of the panel
members has told Â鶹´«Ã½ that better training could have
prevented the accident.
Last month the official Marine Corps investigation cleared the flight crew of
any blame. “The mishap resulted from a hydraulic system failure compounded by a
computer software anomaly,” said Martin Berndt of the Marines. But this anomaly
consisted of a design oversight, says Eugene Covert, a retired aeronautics
expert…
