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What seems to have happened is that the system was originally designed with more conservative parameters. Testing showed that these parameters were insufficient

by mantap 7y ago

What seems to have happened is that the system was originally designed with more conservative parameters. Testing showed that these parameters were insufficient to prevent a stall so they "turned it up to 11", and didn't re-evaluate the original design.

salawat 7y ago
It wasn't that it wasn't sufficient. It was that they found similar behavior happening in a low-speed part of the flight envelope. That required increasing the authority and losing the G-load safeguard.
jussij 7y ago
> "turned it up to 11", and didn't re-evaluate the original design. In other words they thru all engineers principals out the window. Now there is no doubt this is exactly what happened. But the bigger question is why did this happen and why was it allowed to happen?