malfunction
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Earlier, Qatar's interior ministry had described Sunday's incident as an "internal explosion" and a "technical malfunction".
From Barron's • Jun. 22, 2026
According to this hypothesis, the systems briefly misidentified the aircraft as being on the ground, prompting a protection system to interpret high engine thrust as a malfunction and cut fuel to both engines.
From BBC • Jun. 15, 2026
Many regulations are essential guardrails of safety: minimizing the risk of financial crises, ensuring that our food isn’t harmful, protecting us from airplanes that malfunction, and so forth.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
"Showing that the process of protein production loses fidelity with aging provides a kind of underlying rationale for why all these other processes start to malfunction with age," said Frydman.
From Science Daily • May 29, 2026
At the time, it was believed that computer systems would malfunction when internal program systems reset to the year 00.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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