Re:How Did the FAA Allow the Boeing 737 Max to Fly?
by rbanffy on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @09:30AM
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> Our sensory organs aren't equipped to measure complex movements in 3D
That's why you trust what the instruments say. On both MAX crashes (and AF447) what happened is that the plane was doing things the crew didn't understand. If there were a clear indicator they had more than the usual amount of authority (say, chaining the cockpit lighting color to red) or a clear way to disengage the computer assistance and put the plane in an easy to reason about state, which, I assume, would be useful if the plane is doing something for a reason you don't know about. Like you said, the two MAXes would be saved. AF447 is less clear, but, still, if we find the machines so much more capable, then we should remove the humans altogether (that would probably safe AF447).
That's why you trust what the instruments say. On both MAX crashes (and AF447) what happened is that the plane was doing things the crew didn't understand. If there were a clear indicator they had more than the usual amount of authority (say, chaining the cockpit lighting color to red) or a clear way to disengage the computer assistance and put the plane in an easy to reason about state, which, I assume, would be useful if the plane is doing something for a reason you don't know about. Like you said, the two MAXes would be saved. AF447 is less clear, but, still, if we find the machines so much more capable, then we should remove the humans altogether (that would probably safe AF447).