Le 23/10/2016 à 08:39, Fred J. McCall a écrit :
JF Mezei wrote:

On 2016-10-22 16:54, jacob navia wrote:

Altimeter failure. The instrument indicates a much lower altitude than
the real one. So, thinking they are much lower, software ejects the
parachutes, then when the rockets are turned on, the altimeter tells
that they have landed and software shuts down the rockets.


Pardon my ignorance, but which accident are you refering to ?


I'm sure he's talking about the recent failure of the European Mars
lander.



Well of course. And all this is just personal speculation since I have
no access to any esa data.

But it looks awfully like that.