How Did the FAA Allow the Boeing 737 Max to Fly?

Re:How Did the FAA Allow the Boeing 737 Max to Fly? by tim333 on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @07:38AM (#19429871)

It's tricky when it comes to software systems though. Imagine you had to inspect a new Boeing. It would be ok to look at the construction and see it was stuck together ok but hard to understand all the software systems unless you'd helped write them. Normally with software written by others you find the problems by using it and seeing it have bugs or crash, not by inspecting the code.

In this case I imagine someone at Boeing knew moving the elevator jack 2.5 degrees based on one sensor was unsafe hence them selling an optional upgrade that made the system safe. That seems kind of criminal.

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Re:How Did the FAA Allow the Boeing 737 Max to Fly? by pintxo on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @11:24AM (#19431661)

I'd agree if the problems is within the software "black box" (the software term, not the aircraft thingy).

But to me it currently looks like it's largely a problem of how the different systems interact and how it's communicated to the users aka pilots. That's something one should be able to spot from the flowcharts/blueprints or whatever they have to document system integration.

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