alt Hacker News> Nowadays, most MCU's have ECC on them so the time of this excuse is mostly gone now. :)
That's kind of a misleading statement. Assuming you mean on planes built nowadays, as we clearly see that nowadays planes still flying (6K of them at least) still have issues. We don't need hand wavy comments trying to make it sound like modern day aviation is no longer susceptible, especially when it's in a thread on an article showing how that's just not true
I think you and gp may be speaking about different stages. Gp seems to be saying that a plane being designed and specified today would use technologies hardened against this type of error.
That even though they’re in widespread operation today, the aircraft types in question were designed (and certified) many years ago, before ECC was the norm. My impression is that, once their type is certified, new airframes are built to pretty much exactly that specification even all these years later.