That's obviously an old cockpit. The new Airbus A380 only has one pilot and a dog.
A dog you ask? Yes a dog.
What is the dogs job? To bite the pilot if he touches the controls.
And the Pilot's job? To feed the dog.

It's an old pilot's joke oops that an old joke about pilot's

As a programmer, these kinds of crashes really make me wonder.

These have to be single-purpose computers, right? And it would make sense that these be closed systems - no network connection to anything. And they're probably running this one processs. So what's to make them crash?

The only thing I can think of is that they must have special video drivers for these screens that aren't written or tested too well.

That makes me think of this cartoon, and also this.

The same stuff that makes every other program crash? Memory leaks, buffer overflows, incorrectly validated incoming data from controls or sensors.....Sure some of that stuff shouldn't bring down the system but this is windows and it is embedded.

But with no user input and the data input well known? I'd be embarrased if that were my code.

No user input? It's there over 200 controls in the average modern cockpit? Controlling a few hundred systems from aircon to pressurisation to hydraulics many of which have to interact with custom interfaces for all of them, no off the shelf stuff here...It's not excuse but it's not exactly the easiest thing to code.

That's not Ph*t*sh*pped??

Sorry I wasn't more explicit. I was referring to the PSP billboard and friends.

Suddenly the term "crash" has new meaning.....in parallel with the topic.