Fact check: malware did not bring down a passenger jet :: Computing Unplugged

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Fact check: malware did not bring down a passenger jet

It seems translations aren’t always perfect. The computers on Spanair 5022 were not infected with malware. That model has few computers. It was a computer in the maintenance department that was infected and, really, it had nothing to do with the crash.