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A comment on Preliminary conclusion MCAS misfired in Ethiopian's 737 max crash. Parent comment

Re:Preliminary conclusion MCAS misfired in Ethiopian's 737 m... by phkahler on Friday March 29, 2019 @07:31AM (#19520687)
>> This is something almost everyone is missing: A normal flight should not encounter this.

Nobody said there was anything abnormal about the two flights that crashed. It really doesn't matter since the root problem is the plane doing things without telling anyone and then doing it wrongly. Without MCAS these accidents would not have happened.

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Re:Preliminary conclusion MCAS misfired in Ethiopian's 737 m... by MockObject on Friday March 29, 2019 @10:49AM (#19522154)
> Without MCAS these accidents would not have happened.

Without MCAS, wouldn't there be accidents caused by the nonlinear pitch though?

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Re:Preliminary conclusion MCAS misfired in Ethiopian's 737 m... by salawat on Friday March 29, 2019 @10:57AM (#19522240)
No, because the air frame would not have been certified for airworthyness.
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Re:Preliminary conclusion MCAS misfired in Ethiopian's 737 m... by linuxftw on Friday March 29, 2019 @12:15PM (#19522930)
That's my understanding. So a simple 'oh we'll just disable it if the readings disagree' seems like a faulty fix. MCAS is required for safe flight. While it may be possible to operate a Max 800 successfully without it, that's not how it was designed to be flown.
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