Originally Posted by
SteinarN
Well, discovered (late) in flight testing might be part of the reason why it wasnt built with redundacy. Better reliable and redundant programming obviousIy take more time than simple basic programming, and even more so when one includes the increased testing necessary on a more complicated piece of software. Dont know, but maybe it is requiring quite a bit of programming just to get the other AoA vane into the loop?
Yep, that's probably all true. But do you then go ahead and release a system into service that isn't actually fit for purpose? It just seems to me here that something is fundamantally wrong in the philosophy of the system design...it should never have gone into service with these shortcomings.