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Re:Boeing Was ‘Go, Go, Go’ to Beat Airbus with the 737 Max by crumpets on Saturday March 23, 2019 @09:54PM (#19473626)
Not if the engineers were assured the pilots would be trained to quickly recognize trim issues and flip off the MCAS when it started misbehaving.
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Re:Boeing Was ‘Go, Go, Go’ to Beat Airbus with the 737 Max by frostburg on Saturday March 23, 2019 @10:38PM (#19473825)
No, it's still obvious fail-deadly insanity. Having to say that the pilots would need to quickly notice issue is even worse (have you seen how you disable the system? It's not a button that you push).

The point of the plane variant was to not perform any additional training, too.

Anyone saying that to the engineers should be considered a criminal. There is probably a whole incentive structure that lead to this and that should be upended completely.

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Re:Boeing Was ‘Go, Go, Go’ to Beat Airbus with the 737 Max by dboreham on Saturday March 23, 2019 @11:19PM (#19474013)
"Oh darn! The pesky flight control system decided to go into crash the plane mode again. Let me reset it before I take another sip of my latte".
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