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Boeing Reportedly Will Warn That the 737 Max Can 'Abruptly Dive' by Mistake
Posted on 11/6/18 at 11:40 pm
Posted on 11/6/18 at 11:40 pm
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Aerospace giant Boeing is preparing to alert pilots of its new 737 Max line of passenger jets warning that inaccurate readings in an onboard flight-monitoring system can cause the planes “to abruptly dive,” Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing a source with knowledge of the matter. According to Bloomberg, the safety warning is linked to the crash of a Lion Air aircraft last week off the coast of Indonesia, killing an estimated 189 people. The news agency wrote that “existing procedure” can be used to compensate for the issue, which appears to be the result of a serious problem with systems designed to prevent the jets from stalling at dangerously high speeds: The bulletin from Boeing will alert airlines that erroneous readings from a flight-monitoring system can cause the planes to abruptly dive, said the person, who asked not to be named discussing details of the manufacturer’s plans. Boeing will warn pilots to follow an existing procedure to handle the problem, the person said.
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Posted on 11/6/18 at 11:41 pm to RedRifle
That’s my fetish
Wait what
Wait what
Posted on 11/6/18 at 11:42 pm to RedRifle
Hmmm
Posted on 11/6/18 at 11:43 pm to RedRifle
Increasingly complex systems do increasingly unpredictable things.
Posted on 11/6/18 at 11:44 pm to RedRifle
If I'm reading that right, it sounds like a feature created to prevent the Air France type of accident from occuring can cause a crash in its own right.
Can't win for losing.
Can't win for losing.
This post was edited on 11/6/18 at 11:45 pm
Posted on 11/6/18 at 11:46 pm to RedRifle
I watched an Al Jazeera report about Boeing planes assembled in South Carolina as being unsafe because they are sacrificing quality to meet deadlines.
Posted on 11/6/18 at 11:52 pm to EST
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sacrificing quality to meet deadlines.
Welcome to the American way.
Posted on 11/6/18 at 11:56 pm to EST
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because they are sacrificing quality to meet deadlines.
This sounds more like a problem with the software
Posted on 11/6/18 at 11:56 pm to RedRifle
So are they basically saying they’re at fault for the death of 189 people?
Posted on 11/7/18 at 12:00 am to BruceJender
No, they're issuing safety warnings. Not saying it caused the crash.
Posted on 11/7/18 at 12:06 am to RogerTheShrubber
If the plane “abruptly dove” due to some crazy flight monitoring software malfunction then the pilots should have simply turned off the autopilot and pulled up. But Asian pilots suck pretty fricking bad so I wouldn’t be surprised if they rode it all the way in wondering why the computer wasn’t saving them.
Posted on 11/7/18 at 12:18 am to RogerTheShrubber
But if I remember correctly, this was a brand new Boeing? To me, that would seem to be more consistent with a software malfunction rather than a material one.
This post was edited on 11/7/18 at 12:19 am
Posted on 11/7/18 at 1:01 am to RedRifle
I bet their stock is taking a dive just like their planes.
Posted on 11/7/18 at 1:06 am to jbgleason
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I bet their stock is taking a dive just like their planes.
Closed at over $366 today, up $4 from opening. Doing just fine.
eta: $366 not $336
This post was edited on 11/7/18 at 1:55 am
Posted on 11/7/18 at 1:20 am to RedFoxx
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Closed at over $336 today, up $4 from opening. Doing just fine.
Story came out after the bell. You can look up a stock price and can’t look that up? Get back to me tomorrow afternoon.
Posted on 11/7/18 at 1:42 am to jbgleason
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Story came out after the bell. You can look up a stock price and can’t look that up? Get back to me tomorrow afternoon
Boeing stock was at a low of $354 the day after one of their newest planes crashed. Boeing has a $50 billion backlog of orders to fill. Their stock will be fine.
This post was edited on 11/7/18 at 1:43 am
Posted on 11/7/18 at 1:44 am to RedRifle
This is why human pilots will never be obselete.
The more complex a system, the more likely it is to fail.
The more complex a system, the more likely it is to fail.
Posted on 11/7/18 at 1:52 am to RedRifle
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inaccurate readings in an onboard flight-monitoring system can cause the planes “to abruptly dive,”
Whoopsie daisy
Posted on 11/7/18 at 5:14 am to RedRifle
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