Boeing supposedly has a software update according to what I’m hearing on the news. Not sure how Boeing at this point knows if software is the culprit? Did they find the black boxes?
I’d read, perhaps it’s not accurate, that a Boeing pilot could basically shut the computer down and take 100% control of the plane, unlike an Airbus where the computer cannot be overridden. I’m sure there’s much more to it than that.
There working OT at Boeing. They will figure it out.
“computer cannot be overridden”
really? that seems like a really bad idea.
Why have pilots? Worse, why have co-pilots? I though the idea was to have multiple levels of redundancy, people vs. computer and a human backup to the human.
Hearing that other pilots have had problems but were able to correct implies there’s something very wrong here.
The article says they recovered the black boxes in the Ethiopia crash. Also, Boeing has been ordered to improve the anti-stalling software. I'd look also at the angle of attack probes to make sure they are sending correct AOA information to the computer systems because of GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out).