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Article: Harvard Researcher Links Three Crashes to Electromagnetic Interference.
- Article from:
- Air Safety Week
- Article date:
- October 2, 2000
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The airspace over the Atlantic Ocean immediately east of New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport is sort of a "Bermuda triangle" of electromagnetic interference. This is the clear inference of Harvard University researcher Elaine Scarry. In three articles she suggests that electromagnetic interference from external sources may have played a common role in the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800, the 1998 crash of Swissair Flight 111, and the 1999 crash of EgyptAir Flight 990.
With jet airliners coming to depend ever more heavily on electronic systems for vital functions, Scarry believes their vulnerability to electromagnetic interference (EMI) poses a ...
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