Well that computer teacher at Stanford obviously does not know that you cannot take specialized ASIC chips from one system and use it in another ??????
If anyone has ever worked in ASIC design s/he knows that ASIC chips are often designed specifically for the systems they work in and cannot be moved from one system to another. If you are talking about commercial chips, they are available in the market; no need to take apart one system to get one!
Obviously you don't know Motoris backgound. You are talking to an ex-air force man!
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Iran sanctions' risk to air safety is cited in report
Study for global agency criticized U.S.
By Don Phillips
Published: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2005
Six months before a U.S.-made Iranian military transport plane crashed last week and killed 108 people, a report prepared for the International Civil Aviation Organization warned that U.S. sanctions against Iran were placing civilian lives in danger by denying Iranian aviation necessary spare parts and aircraft repair.
The report written by a Canadian contractor, which officials of the agency said Iran had requested and paid for but had no role in writing, did not deal with military aircraft. But it said that the U.S. government and major U.S. companies were ignoring international treaties and taking actions that put passengers on Iranian commercial airlines at risk, including thousands of people from other countries traveling to and from Iran.
The International Civil Aviation Organization, a world body that oversees rules for all the aviation countries, checked the report for technical accuracy. Like other such reports, it was neither endorsed nor rejected by the world body. It received little attention until it recently reached officials in the aviation industry.
Asked for comment on the report, an official of the U.S. State Department noted that Iran had paid for it and that the plane that crashed last week was not a commercial airliner. No U.S. military parts have been approved for Iran since the overthrow of the Shah in 1979.
The U.S. official, who spoke on condition of not being identified by name, said that if any Iranian civilian aircraft were unsafe to fly, it would be the responsibility of civil air authorities in Iran to keep it grounded
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The contractor who did the report, Albert Keith Bryson, a Canadian who now lives in Dubai, was selected by the agency, which is headquartered in Montreal. A spokesman said the agency was careful to ensure that such studies were unbiased.The agency said in a statement that its president, Assad Kotaite, of Lebanon, had once persuaded the United States to provide spare parts for an Iranian Boeing 747 and was now involved in negotiations for delivery of more spare parts.
"In all discussions, Dr. Kotaite always recognized the commitment of the United States to ensure the safety of airline operations, and that this was the guiding principle during the present negotiations," the statement said. "When the United States was convinced that safety was in jeopardy, they allowed spare parts to be delivered."
It is too early to determine whether a lack of proper parts or maintenance caused the crash on Dec. 5 of an Iranian military C-130. Iranian news media reported that the takeoff from Tehran was delayed repeatedly by mechanical problems as the plane prepared for a flight to Bandar Abbas with 68 Iranian reporters on their way to watch Iranian military exercises.
In calls to family members from the plane, several reporters speculated that it might be unable to take off. Eventually it did, but minutes later it suffered an engine failure and rammed into a housing area.Since then, the Iranian government has come under sharp criticism for allowing a flight with civilians aboard by a plane almost 30 years old that was starved for spare parts by the U.S. embargo.
The American actions listed as detrimental to safety in the report the agency commissioned include refusal by U.S. companies to provide spare parts, confiscation of engines sent to other countries for repair, withholding of navigation information, and even threats to stop providing parts to European airlines for their own planes if they did maintenance work for Iran.
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The lack of concern for aviation safety is surprising in intensity and vigor," the report said. "Since most Iranian aircraft spend most of their time in foreign airspace over foreign built-up areas, common sense and an agreed minimum level of safety must prevail within the concept of economic sanctions."
Iran Air and eight smaller Iranian airlines fly over much of Europe, often without the latest navigation charts, according to the report. In addition, though 23 foreign airlines land in Iraq, many navigation aids are not being properly calibrated because one of the two Iranian aircraft equipped with special calibrating equipment is grounded for lack of parts, the report said.
The report said that some deaths and injuries in Iranian civil air crashes could be at least partly attributed to the effects of sanctions. In one case, the report said, a child was killed and several adults were injured when the landing gear of an old Boeing 707 owned by SAHA Airlines collapsed on landing in Iran in April.
The report said that two companies not based in the United States, the aircraft builder Airbus and the engine manufacturer Rolls Royce, had been providing full service to Iran.Most of Iran's current aircraft are Boeing products, however. The study accused Boeing of taking an excessively narrow interpretation of the requirements of the U.S. embargo. In addition to refusing to sell planes to Iran, Boeing refused to offer the airline any help in complying with important safety bulletins, the study said.
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