[sofixa]

What do you mean? Airbus planes have been using software very heavily ( fly by wire for instance) since the first models, and recent ones ( A350) have pretty serious server rooms onboard.

Just because Boeing are incompetent and criminally negligible doesn't mean that airplanes shouldn't use any software.

[tomatocracy]

There's a view that over reliance on software contributed to the total loss of flight AF447 (since pilots were not sufficiently experienced in how to fly the plane in the various fallback modes to be able to react appropriately in an emergency).

[sofixa]

That's more of a training issue than a software issue.

[jdavis703]

The two are closely related. It’s like saying SQL injection bugs are a training/code review issue. But what if the software eliminated that risk (e.g. ORMs).

[j-pb]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_72

We still don't know what went wrong there.