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by noir_lord 3339 days ago
I'm trying to remember where I read about Airbus designing the plane in two different places and when they built the thing it turned out that one place was using version X-1 and the other X and that caused really subtle problems with alignment.

I'm sure it was Airbus but I can't find the article.

EDIT: Found it http://calleam.com/WTPF/?p=4700

Offtopic but the "Catalogue of Catastrophe" is a damn good read http://calleam.com/WTPF/?page_id=3

Basically a "why things failed/cost a fortune that shouldn't" list for large projects.