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posted by martyb on Sunday May 05 2019, @05:40AM   Printer-friendly
from the no-need-to-no dept.

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.

See also: https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeings-own-test-pilots-lacked-key-details-of-737-max-flight-control-system-11556877600


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 05 2019, @04:26PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 05 2019, @04:26PM (#839266)

    They even cut the budget to retrain their own test pilots. How greedy.

    One man's "greedy" is another man's "sincere concern for the financial wellbeing of his stockholders".

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 05 2019, @04:41PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 05 2019, @04:41PM (#839271)

    My favorite is "catholic-opoly", where you prove how nongreedy you are by giving away as much wealth as possible to the catholic church. https://www.amazon.com/Christian-Games-us-Catholic-opoly-Board-Game/dp/B0014HTRW0 [amazon.com]

    • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday May 05 2019, @05:42PM

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday May 05 2019, @05:42PM (#839295) Journal

      May I propose a variation of that game, where instead of giving the wealth to the Catholic Church, the wealth is given to me? ;-)

      --
      The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
  • (Score: 2) by sjames on Sunday May 05 2019, @05:24PM

    by sjames (2882) on Sunday May 05 2019, @05:24PM (#839292) Journal

    Only as an attempt at rationalization. Seems like with a little less greed, they might be doing a bit better now.