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Boeing omitted MCAS from the FAA certification that they did themselves, even though it's: a) critical - if it malfunctions, the plane can crash b) based on s
by sofixa 4y ago
Boeing omitted MCAS from the FAA certification that they did themselves, even though it's:
a) critical - if it malfunctions, the plane can crash
b) based on something that is known to fail often, with zero redundancy
Both of those they were mandated to disclose, and they didn't, knowingly. Why is none of these bastards in jail?
> Wasn't the sensor an AoA vane instead of a pitot tube?
Yeah sorry, mistook the sensor, indeed it's the Angle of Attack sensor next to the pitot tubes. Both are prone to frequent, for aviation, failure, so the point still remains.
- pas 4y ago> Why is none of these bastards in jail? That is the question, right? I mean I get the NTSB no blame approach in progressing safety practices, but there needs to exist an authority that enforces these practices. And the worst part is that this gives a bad rep to "IT" as a whole in the eyes of laypeople, even though IT's internal view aviation is that it's full of safety standards, redundancy, reliability and maintenance is paramount, etc. It turns out the standards were not followed, and starry eyed junior programmers' view of aviation is just smoke and mirrors. When will we reach a turning point?