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Re:Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big deal by noir_lord on Thursday May 07, 2020 @05:48PM (#23108754)
> If “real engineering” worked the way you described, we would test planes by filling them full of passengers and flying them around the world.

Didn’t Boeing just get caught trying that?.

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Re:Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big deal by acdha on Thursday May 07, 2020 @06:11PM (#23108952)
The problems were identified early on but the NTSB, FAA, and their own engineers were overruled by the business people: see e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/business/boeing-737-max-c...
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