to make matters worse, as far as I understand, the bug was declared "out of scope" by Boeing claiming that dealing with a runaway stabilizer is part of standard

to make matters worse, as far as I understand, the bug was declared "out of scope" by Boeing claiming that dealing with a runaway stabilizer is part of standard 737 training/certification, so even if the MCAS goes bleh, it should be no problem. which sounds reckless, after all if you make a system more complicated by introducing a "feature" at least try to make it fail gracefully, etc, etc. then you learn that this glorious safety critical software thing thing was fed by one single angle-of-attack measurement device (oh and to make the system even more mystical the planes had two of these digitalized wind detector flappy flaps, but only one was active, and it switched on reboots, so if one pilot noticed that the system was behaving badly, and then the second one noticed that it was great after all ... the third one had no clue what to expect!) :|