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Retrospective ass covering, Boeing installed MCAS to save money, and in the process took control of the airplane away from the pilots. They should be looking at
by runciblespoon 7y ago
Retrospective ass covering, Boeing installed MCAS to save money, and in the process took control of the airplane away from the pilots. They should be looking at jailtime for this.
- fwip 7y agoBoeing still gives the pilots a lot of control over the airplane, compared to Airbus. Airbus has defaulted to fly-by-wire (i.e: the computer has control and the pilot makes suggestions) for planes made since the 1980's.
- the_pwner224 7y agoAirbus doesn't try to hide that fact from its pilots.
- fwip 7y agoOh, for sure. The person I replied to made it sound like it was always a bad thing (to have a computer in charge), though, and that's certainly not the case.
- magduf 7y agoHaving a computer in charge works fine when the computer is designed correctly, with lots of redundancy and the pilots are trained to understand how it works. This isn't what Boeing did.