Sentence examples for major technical failure from inspiring English sources

"Major technical failure," the ABC News president Ben Sherwood called it.

Preliminary investigation of black-box flight recorders, found three miles down in the ocean last month, suggest there was no major technical failure in the Airbus A330.

The Royal Bank of Scotland is facing millions of pounds of compensation claims after its chief executive admitted that the bank had failed to invest properly in IT for decades, sparking a major technical failure on the busiest online shopping day of the year.

The failure to measure maternal blood pressure and auscultate fetal heartbeats reveals a major technical failure in the care process, contrary to the purpose of decreasing maternal and neonatal mortality.

Wind power hardly ever suffers major technical failures, since failures of individual wind turbines have hardly any effect on overall power, so that the distributed wind power is reliable and predictable, whereas conventional generators, while far less variable, can suffer major unpredictable outages.

Results of the analysis revealed that threats faced by the hospitals fall into four major categories; (i) submergence (ii) technical failure (iii) unpreparedness and (iv) unexpected events.

And, if the transponder and ACARS stopped working a quarter of an hour apart, how could these outages be owing to a technical failure or a major electronic outage?

As posttransplant time progressed, chronic rejection quickly replaced technical failure as the major cause of graft loss.

Major amputation was significantly associated with the technical failure of the procedure (χ = 0.0001), and technical failure was significantly associated with a precocious amputation after percutaneous angioplasty (1.5 ± 1.5 vs. 6.1 ± 1 months, P = 0.02) in comparison to the time of amputation observed in the technically successful percutaneous angioplasty procedures.

The major limitation of percutaneous core biopsy is the technical failure that leads to insufficient material for accurate diagnosis [56, 57].

Deviation from this pattern could be a signature of major technical and/or sample preparation problems, for instance, optical failures or sequence bias introduced during the sample preparation.