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posted by chromas on Thursday March 14 2019, @06:02AM   Printer-friendly

U.S. Grounds Boeing Planes, After Days of Pressure

After days of mounting pressure, the United States grounded Boeing's 737 Max aircraft on Wednesday, reversing an earlier decision in which American regulators said the planes could keep flying after a deadly crash in Ethiopia.

The decision, announced by President Trump, followed determinations by safety regulators in some 42 countries to ban flights by the jets, which are now grounded worldwide. Pilots, flight attendants, consumers and politicians from both major parties had been agitating for the planes to be grounded in the United States. Despite the clamor, the Federal Aviation Administration had been resolute, saying on Tuesday that it had seen "no systemic performance issues" that would prompt it to halt flights of the jet.

That changed Wednesday when, in relatively quick succession, Canadian and American aviation authorities said they were grounding the planes after newly available satellite-tracking data suggested similarities between Sunday's crash in Ethiopia and one involving a Boeing 737 Max 8 in Indonesia in October.

Previously: Second 737 MAX8 Airplane Crash Reinforces Speculation on Flying System Problems

Related: Boeing 737 MAX 8 Could Enable $69 Trans-Atlantic Flights


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by edIII on Thursday March 14 2019, @07:49PM

    by edIII (791) on Thursday March 14 2019, @07:49PM (#814407)

    the whole thing counts on one sensor.

    That alone should have Boeing execs in prison. I've never heard of anything as fucking crazy as that, in a multi-million dollar plane. Zero excuses here. NASA has been operating for over 50 years, and they sure as fuck learned the value of redundant systems, THE HARD WAY. This is cost cutting by Boeing so that execufucks can have more cocaine and hookers.

    THREE sensors. THREE sensors are the minimum. I'm developing tech that administrates and monitors networks and our mantra is simple; No Single Point Of Failure. Our systems are not directly and intimately involved in the safety of human lives either. It's so that uptime can consistently be four 9's. The value of three data inputs is also the fact you can apply error correction codes. If there were three sensors, and two sensors agreed on one thing, and the last was faulty giving bad data, there would not have been a crash and lives would have been saved.

    This is why we should rise up and kill every executive. They treat us like disposable cattle when they make the decision to have only one sensor. I'll bet you anything you want that the Boeing engineers were against a single sensor, but an executive overrode the decision.

    Boeing no longer deserves our trust. This isn't the same company, or the same corporate culture, that existed in WW II. They clearly have a corporate culture infected by avarice and a complete disregard for the value of human life.

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