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Boeing’s Own Test Pilots Lacked Key Details Of 737 Max Flight-Control System

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

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

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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Original Submission

• Re:this may be (Score: 4, Informative) by bob_super on Sunday May 05 2019, @08:54PM

  by bob_super (1357) on Sunday May 05 2019, @08:54PM (#839358)

  > The New York Times was the first to report this, with a detailed front-page article
  > presenting the alleged negligence at Boeing’s South Carolina factory that
  > assembles the 787 Dreamliner. [samchui.com]

  First one Americans actually listen to, 5 years after evil Al Jazeera reported the same concerns:
  https://www.aljazeera.com/investigations/boeing787/ [aljazeera.com]

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