There is nothing wrong with the basic mechanics of the aircraft: Its engines, wings and control surfaces are all believed to be working fine. Rather, the passenger jet may have killed 346 people for the terrifyingly modern reason that human pilots were unable to override a malfunctioning computer.
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The computer was fine. The sensor was bad, and the airline should have had the plane grounded because of the sensor. Even so, any competent pilot could have handled the situation.
“The computer was fine. The sensor was bad, and the airline should have had the plane grounded because of the sensor. Even so, any competent pilot could have handled the situation.”
You just contradicted yourself. The software makes up a component of the computer. The software is defective if it cannot handle a faulty sensor. Therefore the computer is defective as a whole.
And one or two of these planes took your advice and “Grounded” themselves.
And you would have thought that the possibility of a bad sensor would have been accounted for. Maybe a periodic and frequent real time calibration.
If one faulty sensor can crash the plane then it’s a design flaw. A human would not make the same mistake. Yes, apparently computers can make mistakes.
I heard that Boeing decided to go with a single sensor instead of redundant ones.
Indeed. They keep saying software but Lion Air was due to the faulty AoA Sensor, and that’s hardware. If that many pilots reported issues, 1) they were able to handle it and 2) I’d be looking real hard atcthe sensors.
I believe you are hot on the trail here. A pilot, not a Nintendo player in a uniform, would have handled this incident and thought nothing of it, just another day in they office.
bull shit. 26 times the nose went down. You want to try it?
>> The computer was fine. The sensor was bad, and the airline should have had the plane grounded because of the sensor. Even so, any competent pilot could have handled the situation. <<
If they realized what was happening, and it was happening persistently.
No aircraft computer override system should be dependent on one sensor/one input.
HUGE design error. I’m an EE with 30 years in computers, hardware, software, etc.
Cannot believe Boeing engineers would do that.
AND that the pilots wouldn’t be trained in their certification to fly the plane of easy & quick means of overriding/cancelling the software....
TWO huge design errors........
The AE35 Unit checked out fine. HAL was the problem.