Originally Posted by
GordonR_Cape
...Nor am I trying to discount the disastrous nature of MCAS, but pointing out that adding a 3rd AOA to an old airframe does not solve anything.
As far as I understand logic, a 3rd AoA would have allowed the system to run a software algorithm that votes an erroneous AoA sensor input out against the other two. That would have solved EVERYTHING in those two crashes, no?
It would have prevented MCAS from activating in the first place. 346 people would still live. Two airplanes would still fly. And all the other 737 MAX would not have been grounded.
How can you come to the conclusion that it wouldn't have solved anything?
We know by now why Boeing did use only one sensor input: to save money, and keeping the reckless promise, that crews would need no expensive training to fly the plane except minutes with some slideshow on the iPad. In order to do so, they had to downgrade the risk as in case of malfunction not potentially catastrophic, and apparently they did so intentionally, and the FAA was partner in crime.