Boeing Co. limited the role of its own pilots in the final stages of developing the 737 MAX flight-control system implicated in two fatal crashes, departing from a longstanding practice of seeking their detailed input, people familiar with the matter said.
As a result, Boeing test pilots and senior pilots involved in the MAX' development didn't receive detailed briefings about how fast or steeply the automated system known as MCAS could push down a plane' nose, these people said. Nor were they informed that the system relied on a single sensor, rather than two, to verify the accuracy of incoming data about the angle of a plane's nose, they added.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 05 2019, @01:59PM
Yet another person trying treat problems as "random". Doing that IS the root problem. Pilots didn't just randomly fail to figure it out, there is a reason.