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A lot of powerful claims made in this article. Are we sure 737s crashed because of spaghetti code? As far as I am concerned the max crashes were due to a string

• civilized 6y ago
  Absolutely not, that was just an early meme. The overall MCAS system responsible for the failure was so critically flawed that no software algorithm could have possibly made it work as intended.
  • hn_throwaway_99 6y ago
    That is not my understanding of the MCAS failures at all. The primary cause of the failures was: 1. Lack of redundancy with the AoA sensors. This is obviously straightforward to rectify. 2. Lack of proper pilot training and awareness of the different handling characteristics of the 737 Max with MCAS compared to previous versions of the 737. Also obvious to rectify with proper training.
    • civilized 6y ago
      That was my point. The lack of AoA redundancy was an egregious design flaw that no software could have fixed. A design with a simple but catastrophic & easily foreseeable error isn't a good or even OK design overall. If you make a suspension bridge missing one of the towers, or lacking sufficient cable strength causing it to collapse, your bridge design is terrible, even if everything else you did was flawless. Maybe the engineers had excuses, were rushed by management etc., but their design was still insane.