MPlayer Software Suspected in Plane Crash![]() Of the few passengers who narrowly averted disaster by assuming crash positions instead of panicking to death, only two were able to give their accounts of what happened during the final moments before the crash. One survivor blames the entire incident on a passenger who was sitting next to him, a teenager described as being a "pathetic and hopeless nerd." ![]() Mary Seiler, a stewardess serving on the flight, also noticed a disturbance before impact: "At around the same time that kid turned on his computer, everything in the Second and First Class cabins stopped working. Then a weird voice on the speaker system said something about having to pay a yearly fee if you wanted better service. I was busy thanking my lucky stars that we didn't lose cabin pressure. Guess I spoke to soon." While airline officials have expressed their skepticism regarding the role of the notoriously bug-ridden MPlayer software in the crash, they have not completely ruled out the possibility, due to the baffling final entry in the plane's flight recorder: "You must have Windows 95 in order to land." |
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