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Re:Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse? by function_seven on Thursday December 19, 2019 @08:43PM (#21841093)
Everything you wrote it true, but doesn't support the statement:

> These planes cannot fly without a computer adjusting them to keep the balance.

I haven't seen anything suggesting that. If MCAS was completely ripped out of the computers, these planes still can be flown, right? The pilots would need to be trained on the differing characteristics, but it isn't inherently unstable like some military jets are.

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Re:Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse? by sokoloff on Thursday December 19, 2019 @09:58PM (#21841403)
The planes would still physically fly without MCAS. (They are not unstable.)

The planes could not legally fly without MCAS, because they fail a required stick force linearity certification requirement. (FAR 25.173)

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