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Bengaluru, Dec 16: Hindustan Aeronautics Limited on Thursday awarded a Rs 2,400 crore contract to Bharat Electronics Limited for the manufacture and supply of 20 types of airborne electronic systems for the LCA Tejas Mk1A fighter aircraft programme. The order spanning five years from 2023 to 2028 involves supply of critical avionic Line Replaceable Units (LRUs) related to Digital Flight Control Computers, Air Data Computers, Weapon Computers, LRUs related to Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) and Head...

Inaccurate? >> absolutely. i mean the pitot tubes that were referring to that send air speed information to the air data computers and send to the instrument panel if you have erroneous information youll get erroneous warnings. things that wont make sense. thats why that air france 447 was an interesting accident in that regard. they were getting such conflicting information and the computers were too. >> so the plane has multiple sensor multiple pitot tubes, et cetera. what happens this pitot t...

Pressure, and the company issued this statement. further operational checks were necessary following a modification to the 757 air data computers. all systems have been fully functional. the faa is saying that the skies are going to get a lot more crowded. by 2021, ten years from now, the government predicts that there will be 1 billion airline passengers. thats a lot of boarding passes. it could also mean a lot of delays, complaints, and, yes, lost bags. but by then, youll probably have more ri...

Whats happened? >> thats about one quarter of their entire main line planes. and these travel across the country. a computer system that measures the altitude and the speed and then feeds that into the autopilot, you want that computer working. and we should note, they have been working. the issue here, though, is that they need some additional maintenance. united put out a statement saying further operational checks were necessary following a modification to the 757 air data computers. all syst...

Carry it in the states. they did it now just in time for spring break because they were afraid that kids would walk into gas stations or tobacco stores trying to pick this up. and they didnt want to take that risk. >> that is scary stuff. thank you so much for that this morning. at the bottom of the hour here now. some of the stories were keeping a close eye on, including a rough day for passengers who are flying united. the airline has temporarily grounded its entire fleet of 757 jet liners f...

And the loyalty program, but borders has a lot of problems. its hurt by a $1 billion mound of debt. its sales in the past few years have been falling in the double digits. its seriously led to t lly lat e-reader game and as you know, brooke, not really good to fall behind the trend especially in todays digital age, everything is electronic from books to shopping and everything else we do. >> i know. i still like the good old-fashioned book. >> i do, too. >> i want to talk about united because i ...

Walkers budget repair bill. here is a live shot. this is a big demonstration. two days in a row. the governor is expected to hold a news conference shortly to respond to the workers. protesters say they are prepared to stay late into the night. they were demonstrating yesterday. its cold in madison but they are really paying close attention to whats going on and we are paying close attention to them right now. in other news were following weve just learned that one of the deputy u.s. marshals sh...

Arrangements. martha: that would have been helpful, right? molly henneberg joins us live from washington with more. so what is united doing to these, what do they think is wrong with them? >> reporter: hi martha. theyre doing a certain type of maintenance check that takes 60-90 minute phos each plane and this is the second of two days of the check, only on united fleets of boeing 757s and the airline says all this may cause delays or some flights to be canceled. its part of a federal air worthin...

But first, passengers on united airlines could face travel delays today after the company grounded its fleet of 757 aircraft. >> the planes need an additional safety inspection following the update of air data computers. john garcia of our chicago station wls has the details. >> reporter: even as some united planes arrive at ohare, it is unclear how soon they will be back in the air. the airline is having to scramble at the last minute, while they try to service much of their fleet of 757s. for ...