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Damning report reveals cause of HMNZS Manawanui's sinking off Samoa (www.nzherald.co.nz)

submitted 19 hours ago by _ed@lemmy.nz to c/newzealand@lemmy.nz

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...He said the crew did not realise Manawanui remained in autopilot and, mistakenly believed its failure to respond to direction changes was the result of a thruster control failure...

Hows that for a work story... I've had some bad days at the office, but they have not resulted in the loss of a $100 million dollar piece of equipment.

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[–] Beacon@fedia.io 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I think a well designed system should have a reminder alert that rings if autopilot is enabled and then the controls get moved around a lot.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz 2 points 16 hours ago

Given that this was also a factor in the grounding of one of the Interislander ferries recently, I'm thinking autopilot systems are much more complex than they need to be.