Opinion: Aviation faces a turning point on automated flight after a Boeing tragedy, writes HolmanJenkins
As more information comes out about two Boeing crashes, it’s clear that a big system malfunction was at work. Not the famed “MCAS” system, designed to help a pilot avoid an aerodynamic stall, whose snafu is strongly implicated in last October’s crash of a late-model 737 MAX in Indonesia and is suspected in last week’s crash of a 737 MAX in Ethiopia.
That system seems clearly to have been badly designed, in a way neither Boeing nor the Federal Aviation Administration would have approved if they had understood what they were...
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