Re: Ariane 5 Failure from 1996

[jonathan <johnscpg@googlemail.com>]

On Jul 10, 3:53 pm, John McCabe <j...@nospam.assen.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Dear All
>
> The other day, some geezer who was presenting to me claimed that
> someone had carried out an analysis to show that, had the Ariane 5
> software been written in C, the first launch would have succeeded.
>
> Are any of you aware of this claim and have information to debunk
> this?
>
> Thanks
> John

Any program that met the requirements would have destroyed the flight
at exactly the same time and in exactly the same way. It could
have been written in C, Ada, or assembly and if it met the
requirements
exactly it would have destroyed flight 501 the same 37 seconds
after liftoff.

Post-flight analysis described the problem as a requirements failure .

(That's my memory of the event.)

Jonathan