Cosmic rays sounds to me like a lame excuse, (no pun intended) given the number of scary incidents and losses they should be engineering commonsense changes to the flight control systems.
I still remember seeing footage of an aircraft autolanding in to a forest at an airshow when the pilot had intended to simply do a low pass. Pilot error, yes if he had fully understood the flight control system it wouldn't have happened, but the pilot didn't deliberately crash the plane, the flight computer did.
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