American Airlines has beenusing iPads in situation of paper citation booksfor several eld — but last nighttime , a weakness picture . “ Several 12 ” of the airline ’s plane were grounded as pilots ’ iPads crashed .
In a slew of of tweet , it make out to light that the iPads used by pilots or else of the piles of old - schoolhouse reference book were crash forrader of take - off , report Quartz . The software and data that they use are provide by Jeppesen , a sub - division of Boeing Digital Aviation .
Speaking to Quartz , one rider excuse that “ the pilot separate us when they were get ready to take off , the iPad sieve get blank , both for the captain and copilot , so they did n’t have the flight plan . ” One pilot is reported to have told a rider that “ the intact 737 fleet on American had feel the same doings . ”
American Airlines took to Twitter to formally admit that the problems were due to iPad crashes :
@bjacarusoSome flight are experiencing an issue with a software covering on pilot burner iPads . We ’ll have information about your expiration soon .
— americanair ( @AmericanAir)April 29 , 2015
Andrea Huguely , American Airlines theater director of corporate communication theory , told USA Todaythat “ in some cases , the flight has had to reelect to the gate to access a Wi - Fi connection to situate the emergence . ” It remains to be seen whether the problem has been properly fixed , but we ’ve strain out to American Airlines to find out . Until then , it may for pilots to pack some dead trees in their traveling bag . [ USA Today , Quartz ]
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