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Re:Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions into 737 Max, Blind to a ... by jussij on Saturday June 01, 2019 @10:15PM (#20073037)
> There's absolutely no reason why a properly-designed and -vetted MCAS system wouldn't have been a perfectly acceptable solution

Surely that was exactly the MCAS that was installed in both of the planes that crashed.

But the fact it failed so badly suggest it might in fact be a rather difficult system to get right.

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Re:Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions into 737 Max, Blind to a ... by CamperBob2 on Saturday June 08, 2019 @04:09PM (#20134828)
If you're arguing that MCAS was "properly designed and vetted," you're the only voice crying in that particular wilderness.

Boeing's implementation will be a mainstay in engineering ethics classes for the next 100 years, right next to the Therac-25 and the Kansas City Hyatt.

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