MCAS: How 737 MAX system gained power and lost safeguards

Post by supportlocal4h » Tue, Jun 25, 2019, 1:43 AM UTC

dboreham wrote: post #26

supportlocal4h wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wouldn't it be interesting if FFA signoff included approval by a regulatory team from the competing manufacturer. I wonder what abuses would crop up there.

Almost as if Google were to spent time and effort looking for security bugs in Microsoft products..

More like if Google had to approve every new release of MS products and shoulder some blame if things go wrong. Of course, if Google blocked some release of MS product, MS could retaliate by blocking a Google product. Or either could just stall until their own product could match features.

So obviously, any block would have to clearly state the rationale. Then the regulator could choose to overrule the block, but it would be more clear then where the gamesmanship was.

Post by CaptainZapp » Wed, Jun 26, 2019, 6:20 AM UTC

benatkin wrote: post #14

Props to the author or editor that came up with the title of this. To make it more embarrassing: > MCAS: How 737 MAX system gained power to compete with Airbus and lost safeguards It's really tragic. If only they'd seen how much of a blunder this would be before lives were lost. But it's hard to get a big picture view until after the fact, when it involves so many people. I think perhaps Southwest was the closest to…

It's really tragic. If only they'd seen how much of a blunder this would be before lives were lost.

Or, at the very minimum grounded that damn death trap volountarily after the Lion Air crash.

The first crash can be attributed to greed, short cuts, engineering blunders and immense pressure to rush the plane into production.

The second crash is corporate mass murder.

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