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Re:FAA Finds New Risk on 737 Max, Orders Boeing to Make Changes by cjbprime on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @10:39PM (#20291304)
> That pattern shouldn't have been possible

Huh, this is new to me. I thought it was simply that two sensors failed, and their failed values outvoted the correct value in the quorum vote with the third sensor. What's the mystery about?

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Re:FAA Finds New Risk on 737 Max, Orders Boeing to Make Changes by bronson on Thursday June 27, 2019 @12:41AM (#20291813)
Section 5.3: https://www.atsb.gov.au/media/3532398/ao2008070.pdf#page225

A microprocessor failed and output corrupted data.

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