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 New Scientist 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…
