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Originally Posted by JamesNoBrakes
Boeing's learning curve may have been steeper as far as flight control fly-by-wire automation, but the bigger problems appeared to be cost-cutting and disregarding safety, such as AOA disagreements and what it should do in those cases. Europe has mandated there be 3 AOA sensors, one of which may be "synthetic" based on groundspeed and other inputs, but to have the system just go into full stall-protection "dive at the ground"-mode due to ONE sensor without an AOA disagree was a very poor design.
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Boeing made a very stupid, high school level coder mistake.
Then spent millions trying to deny it.
And lost billions when they couldn't.