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You are correct, however... I can't imagine a single engineer with any kind of proper education (formal or not) implementing any piece of software or hardware w
by salex89 7y ago
You are correct, however... I can't imagine a single engineer with any kind of proper education (formal or not) implementing any piece of software or hardware without thinking:"One sensor? Really? What's the failure rate on this thing". That might have been enough to stop the chan of events.
- numpad0 7y agoYou get $9 for hypothetical blood splattered on your hand or you get worse than nothing for nothing
- kbad1000 7y agoOr may be they pointed it out but got reply "just work as said, you're just $9 engineer"? Or they were never told about the exact purpose?
- CydeWeys 7y agoThe engineers may not have realized they were relying on one sensor, or they might be the $9/hour variety with no avionics experience who don't know any better. The main problem was higher up. The overall design was bad, and Boeing didn't seem to have a handle on it.
- mikeash 7y agoI suspect they were told that runaway trim wouldn’t be a serious problem, and they believed it since they wouldn’t have the expertise to analyze the whole thing from first principles.
- anticensor 7y agoOr they have a "obey all orders even when it is blatantly criminal" clause.