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All planes are only stable within certain flight parameters. The problem wasn't that the plane was unstable, it was that the stability region was different than
by adgjlsfhk1 5y ago
All planes are only stable within certain flight parameters. The problem wasn't that the plane was unstable, it was that the stability region was different than that of previous 737s. If the plane had been given a different name and required simulator training, none of this mess would have ever happened.
(Or if they'd just correctly classified MCAS as a safety critical feature and made it have redundant inputs).
- tiahura 5y agoOr if they’d just done a sanity check on the AOA data.
- WalterBright 5y agoYou're right, but that's a different issue from requiring the airplane to be dynamically stable in all its flight modes.