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by throwaway3563 829 days ago
The most that the ATSB was able to determine was that the data corruption was basically akin to a C++ reinterpret_cast of "altitude" as "angle of attack", causing the 37,000ft or so altitude to sporadically be read as a 50 degree AoA.

The issue was not definitively traced to cosmic rays or another root cause.