How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer (2019)

Re:How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Devel... by liability on Friday August 21, 2020 @12:07PM (#24236059)

This is complete nonsense. Mistakes have always happened but the FAA was highly instrumental during the 20th century in driving down accident rates.

And even if that weren't the case, you're ignoring all of my other points, particularly the one about the floppy system being proven in the field for years, and your failure to provide examples of accidents attributable to the use of floppies.

Come up with some sources specific to your concern about floppies if you can, or this conversation has run its course.

> Their mouth pieces repeated the refrain 'safest form of travel' over an over

Unless they're covering up thousands of fatalities (they aren't), the statistics are pretty clear.

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Re:How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Devel... by linuxftw on Friday August 21, 2020 @12:35PM (#24236384)

> And even if that weren't the case, you're ignoring all of my other points, particularly the one about the floppy system being proven in the field for years, and your failure to provide examples of accidents attributable to the use of floppies.

I don't think the FAA could satisfactorily prove to me that corrupted data has never made it onto a plane and that plane wasn't thereafter flown with passengers. Software has been getting a free pass, I doubt they have ever competently audited any flight control software.

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