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> seems to amount to about 20 lines of code it's sobering to think that 20 lines of code could potentially have saved 346 lives :/
by holler 6y ago
> seems to amount to about 20 lines of code
it's sobering to think that 20 lines of code could potentially have saved 346 lives :/
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoThat doesn't sound right. If I understand correctly, the crashes were not due to a programmer making a mistake in a few lines of code. They were due to inadequate sensor redundancy, inadequate pilot retraining, and possibly a missing warning light [0] (the fault still lying with Boeing on all three points). At no point did the behaviour of the MCAS software deviate from its specification. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/05/business/boeing-737-max-warning-light.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/05/business/boeing-737-max-w...
- _ph_ 6y agoDeactivating MCAS on AOA disagree would have prevented both crashes. But yes, the program behaved to spec, so strictly speaking it is not a programmer error but a spec problem.