MCAS: How 737 MAX system gained power and lost safeguards

Re:MCAS: How 737 MAX system gained power and lost safeguards by runciblespoon on Sunday June 23, 2019 @07:55PM (#20259498)

Retrospective ass covering, Boeing installed MCAS to save money, and in the process took control of the airplane away from the pilots. They should be looking at jailtime for this.

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Re:MCAS: How 737 MAX system gained power and lost safeguards by fwip on Sunday June 23, 2019 @09:14PM (#20259806)

Boeing still gives the pilots a lot of control over the airplane, compared to Airbus. Airbus has defaulted to fly-by-wire (i.e: the computer has control and the pilot makes suggestions) for planes made since the 1980's.

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Re:MCAS: How 737 MAX system gained power and lost safeguards by the_pwner224 on Sunday June 23, 2019 @10:34PM (#20260066)

Airbus doesn't try to hide that fact from its pilots.

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Re:MCAS: How 737 MAX system gained power and lost safeguards by fwip on Monday June 24, 2019 @11:41AM (#20264631)

Oh, for sure. The person I replied to made it sound like it was always a bad thing (to have a computer in charge), though, and that's certainly not the case.

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Re:MCAS: How 737 MAX system gained power and lost safeguards by magduf on Monday June 24, 2019 @01:15PM (#20265882)

Having a computer in charge works fine when the computer is designed correctly, with lots of redundancy and the pilots are trained to understand how it works.

This isn't what Boeing did.

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