A passenger jet 850 feet above the runway at Vilnius in January 2025 abandoned its landing when its instruments began quietly lying — nothing on the plane was broken, and it diverted to another country

A passenger jet 850 feet above the runway at Vilnius in January 2025 abandoned its landing when its instruments began quietly lying — nothing on the plane was broken, and it diverted to another country

On the afternoon of January 16, 2025, a Ryanair Boeing 737 MAX 8-200 inbound from London Luton was descending toward Vilnius International Airport in Lithuania when its cockpit instruments began disagreeing with each other. The crew, sensing something was wrong with data they were supposed to trust absolutely, pushed the throttles up, retracted the gear, and climbed away from the runway. Nothing on the aircraft was mechanically broken. The autop…