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Re:Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens by petilon on Monday December 23, 2019 @03:08PM (#21866865)
[Boeing] engineers observed a tendency for the plane’s nose to pitch upward during a specific extreme maneuver. After other efforts to fix the problem failed, the solution they arrived at was a piece of software — the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) — that would move a powerful control surface at the tail to push the airplane’s nose down.

Source: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/the...

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Re:Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens by na85 on Monday December 23, 2019 @04:06PM (#21867383)
Sorry, but the Seattle Times is not a competent source when it comes to reporting aerodynamics.

Any standard-configuration airliner will pitch up when you throttle up at low speed.

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