Quote Originally Posted by Sir Moody View Post
The software in question is not cloud reliant - it is designed to work offline (according to Boeing's website) - it seems to work by downloading the maps while the plane is at the gate and connected and then running offline while the plane is in the air - id hazard a guess that the problem was in a failure to download the maps (since the article mentions the pilots having to return to the gate to fix the issue)
Well, I made a somewhat generic statement since some people mentioned that but the article doesn't indeed. It just says the app was failing due to duplicate data and they had to re-download it at the gate once the error was fixed.

This will be a non-issue once the planes are drones and fly without pilots.