July 26, 2008
Multiplication is hard…
— srikanth @ 11:32 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1217115141 ) 
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Answer:
- The Gimli Glider, an Air Canada Flight – lost fuel and glided to a halt
- The Mars Climate Orbiter – Blew up somewhere over mars
Both mixups happened because of errors in conversion between imperial and metric units :-)
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July 27th, 2008 at 2:02 am, GMT +0000 ( 1217124155 )
1.Gimli Glider
2.Mars Climate Orbiter
Connect-> Metric Mixup
July 27th, 2008 at 5:12 am, GMT +0000 ( 1217135541 )
1-Gimli Gilder
2-Mars Climate Orbiter
Connect: Both accidents took place as a result of errors in metric-imperial conversions.
July 27th, 2008 at 5:16 am, GMT +0000 ( 1217135766 )
Both had errors due to confusion between metric and British units.
July 27th, 2008 at 8:10 am, GMT +0000 ( 1217146219 )
gimili glider- accident caused by using metric system which replaced the imperial system.
mars climate orbiter- accident caused by using imperial system which replaced the metric system.
July 27th, 2008 at 8:23 am, GMT +0000 ( 1217147021 )
gimli gilder metric mixup accidents!! nice one
July 27th, 2008 at 9:53 am, GMT +0000 ( 1217152404 )
First pic is of Air Canada flight 143 vch crashlanded at Gimli in Canada in 1983 due to lack of fuel(was on NGC very recently)..
Second pic is the unsuccessful Mars Climate Orbiter mission of 1998..
Both accidents occurred as a result of miscalculations due the conflicting values given by the Metric system n d Imperial System ; fuel load was miscalcalculated in case of the air canada flight and time in case of d space probe..
July 27th, 2008 at 10:07 am, GMT +0000 ( 1217153235 )
Math with the wrong units.
Nice question.
July 27th, 2008 at 11:12 am, GMT +0000 ( 1217157164 )
Both the Gimli Glider and the Mars Climate Orbiter were victim to incorrect conversion of metric units and imperial units.
Ha.
July 27th, 2008 at 9:12 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1217193167 )
Both were caused as a direct result of wrong calculations by humans.
August 5th, 2008 at 10:06 am, GMT +0000 ( 1217930792 )
Amajing Queston :)