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by defrost 1248 days ago
That's just silly.

Obviously it was due to details being entered using the now standard International foot when the software expected the now obsolete US survey foot [1] .. the discrepency across a transcontinental flight was large enough for a pilot to fall through.

[1] https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2023/01/new-years-eve-...