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That's just silly.

Obviously it was due to details being entered using the now standard International foot when the software expected the now obsolete US survey foot [1] .. the discrepency across a transcontinental flight was large enough for a pilot to fall through.

[1] https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2023/01/new-years-eve-...



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