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My wife passed this info on to me from some very close friends.

Where we live in Northern NSW, our electricity supplyer buys power from the government power station and resells it to us the consumers for a profit. When asked about the state of preperation of the power company he worked for, the workman (doing a maintainces inspection on friends house) said he had not heard of Y2k untill only last week when his company received a letter from the head office telling them to start working on their year 2000 remediation work.

On another note, a local shop keeper (who knows I have been documenting Y2K) gave me a 4 page A4 size document titled 'The Year 2000 Problem - Misconceptions & Options' what is different about this document is that it was circulated by the Queensland government. Other than quoting Ed Yaedeni's economic prediction of a 70% collapse it quoted his 97 figure of 40%. It also said that planes would not fall out of the sky (The 1997 Guam air jet crash was a direct result of Y2k failure) so this is also untrue, other than that it is a very good wake up call and a credit to the queensland government.

Timothy Wilbur

-- Timothy J Wilbur (timkaz@nor.com.au), July 30, 1998

Answers

Bzzt!

"The 1997 Guam air jet crash was a direct result of Y2k failure" NOT TRUE

-- Nigel Arnot (nra@maxwell.ph.kcl.ac.uk), July 30, 1998.


Bzzt!

"The 1997 Guam air jet crash was a direct result of Y2k failure" NOT TRUE

It was discovered that a system that would have alerted air traffic controllers to the fact that the plane was too low was out of order because of a software fault (AFAIK not Y2K related). Also the automatic glidepath radio system was shut down (scheduled; the pilot would have known well in advance)

Neither is the CAUSE of the crash. The pilot should have been able to make a safe landing in those circumstances.

Sorry about previous incomplete post - keyboard trouble.

-- Nigel Arnot (nra@maxwell.ph.kcl.ac.uk), July 30, 1998.


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