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As I understand it, the 737 MAX issue was not because the pilots didn't know how their plane worked, but because they were lied to about a feature that was inst
by jen20 3y ago
As I understand it, the 737 MAX issue was not because the pilots didn't know how their plane worked, but because they were lied to about a feature that was installed to try to reduce costs. Had they been told it was there, no the outcomes could well have been different.
- palata 3y agoNot sure I understand your point. I read "it's not that they did not know how to disable the feature, it's just that they were not told how to disable the feature". Or are you saying that they knew, but somehow did not do it?
- numpad0 3y agoThey were literally never told such a thing exists and it can be turned off. So they tried what they can without touching it to no avail.
- tinaclaussen 3y agoPlus - FAA and Boeing + contractors did too much high level abstraction.
- palata 3y agoI know. My original point was that it is not completely clear that pilots know better how planes work than software engineers know how computers work. Not at all saying that they were incompetent. On the contrary, passenger planes today are IMO much more complex than one desktop computer loading a web page: passenger planes are a group of many computers doing safety-critical stuff in order to maintain a giant machine up in the air. I don't see how one can say that software engineers don't really understand computers, but pilots do really understand planes.
- boxedadin 3y agoAlthough the pilots cannot be blamed for not understanding the undocumented controls of the 737, one (multiple?) incident(s) were mitigated due to very experienced pilots understanding the fundamentals of the plane. Think of the pilot knowledge as a second line of defense, against an incident that should have never happened (again - not the pilots fault, but the additional knowledge helped). I recommend reading “Flying Blind” for more detailed accounts of the precursor lion air flight that almost crashed.
- nunez 3y agoThat is correct. They weren't trained appropriately on how to handle the incorrect AoA scalars they were receiving but reacted as if they were correct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Air_Flight_610#investigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Air_Flight_610#investigat...