Re:Boeing's 737 MAX Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers
by NullPrefix on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @02:37PM
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birthday balloon? In front of a landing plane at 170mph?
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Re:Boeing's 737 MAX Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers
by neuralRiot on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @04:24PM
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In a safety-critical design you have to take in account what will happen if what cannot happen happens.
Re:Boeing's 737 MAX Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers
by moosedev on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @04:19PM
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GP is (quite reasonably) using a deliberately slightly silly example as a rhetorical flourish. I would do the same. Think of it of a stand-in or totem for all of the possibilities (from silly to very real) that leap into horrifying life in an engineer's brain when they learn that a critical system has a single point of failure.
Re:Boeing's 737 MAX Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers
by jiggawatts on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @07:37PM
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Yes. It happens. In a recent news clip a pilot was interviewed about the MAX and he raised the risk of bird strike and birthday balloons as something that “happens all the time”.
Re:Boeing's 737 MAX Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers
by uuddlrlrbaba on Thursday March 14, 2024 @12:40PM
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It actually happens, similarly to bird strikes or collisions with essentially any object that can float or fly into the path of a plane.
https://simpleflying.com/avianca-airbus-a319-balloon-strike/
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-09-22-me-41720-...
https://dronedj.com/2021/08/31/update-faa-says-envoy-air-pas...