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In-flight entertainment running on Windows

In-flight entertainment reboot

Recently when I was flying back to Europe from South Africa with Lufthansa on Airbus A340-600 the In-flight entertainment crashed just before takeoff. They had to restart the entire system. I could see the entire reload of the system including the initial download with 115K baud XModem protocol download.

Yikes! I hope that only non-vital systems are running Windows for an airliner. :-)

 Anders Lybecker is an chief architect at Kring Development A/S, a consultancy firm in Copenhagen, Denmark. He holds a degree in software engineering specializing in software development. His primary expertises are the Microsoft .Net framework and SQL Server which he has been working with since the start of this century! He enjoys discussing technical topics, teaching and speaking at conferences.

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2 Responses to “In-flight entertainment running on Windows”

  1. Shijaz AbdullaNo Gravatar says:
    October 6, 2009 at 3:14 pm

    Here’s the story of another airline running an IFE on LINUX that crashed:
    http://www.microsoftnow.com/2009/08/so-much-for-stability.html

    This one kept restarting multiple times during the flight at random seats!

  2. Anders LybeckerNo Gravatar says:
    October 7, 2009 at 7:47 am

    No systems are flawless. As long as it’s only the in-flight entertainment systems that are unstable, I’m not worried, only annoyed ;-)

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