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Re:Undercover Cops Hired 118 Handymen, Then Arrested Them fo... by nitrogen on Thursday February 06, 2020 @02:23AM (#22254149)
Planes do have standards
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Re:Undercover Cops Hired 118 Handymen, Then Arrested Them fo... by kick on Thursday February 06, 2020 @02:31AM (#22254200)
That's the joke. (Made more obvious by the fact that the 737 MAX controversy was over a software issue.)
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Re:Undercover Cops Hired 118 Handymen, Then Arrested Them fo... by silon42 on Thursday February 06, 2020 @03:05AM (#22254341)
The MAX is a system design issue... for reliability it should probably include at least a third AoA sensor.
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Re:Undercover Cops Hired 118 Handymen, Then Arrested Them fo... by jariel on Thursday February 06, 2020 @05:03AM (#22254848)
No, it's not a joke.

If Aviation didn't have a lot of standards, considerably more planes would be falling out of the sky.

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Re:Undercover Cops Hired 118 Handymen, Then Arrested Them fo... by Yetanfou on Thursday February 06, 2020 @06:59AM (#22255368)
Not just a software issue in this case but a combination of software and non-redundant hardware in the default configuration with a single angle-of-attack sensor on each side. That missing sensor is far more likely to be related to bean counters than to software developers. Are bean counters licenced?
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