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Old 24th Mar 2019, 23:43
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jwamm
 
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Possible reason for faulty data in AOA system?

NYT 3/23/19 "Go,go,go" article, quoted in post #2338 cites a Boeing technician assembling the Max:
Originally Posted by airman1900
" A technician who assembles wiring on the Max said that in the first months of development, rushed designers were delivering sloppy blueprints to him. He was told that the instructions for the wiring would be cleaned up later in the process, he said.
His internal assembly designs for the Max, he said, still include omissions today, like not specifying which tools to use to install a certain wire, a situation that could lead to a faulty connection. Normally such blueprints include intricate instructions."
Generally, such observations would not seem to boost confidence in the Max. More specifically, it would be interesting to know if any of these omissions in the MAX assembly designs which "could lead to a faulty connection" involve circuitry carrying the AOA sensor data.
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