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Old 22nd Mar 2019, 01:37
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b1lanc
 
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Originally Posted by PaxBritannica
I can't see that a quick fix for MCAS is going to reassure the travelling public, ie me. If MCAS was a bodge, how many other bodges were found acceptable? If this was the only place in the design where engineers were asked to take a 'small' risk, I suspect whispers would have gotten around long before the plane flew. Therefore, it's likely that it was just one of many other design 'solutions' where the idea of tolerable risk was normalised.

No software patch will fix systemic management hubris.
Really? Do you think a crew will board then? As has been posted in many topics, most pax have no clue what aircraft type they are flying on. They fly by the dollar. If the crew boards, so will the pax.
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