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Old 11th Apr 2019, 17:54
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bill fly, #3910,
The point was not about whether a system can be certificated or not; it is about the human reaction and ability to manage the failure.
The 737 Max has several consequential ‘failures’ associated with AoA inaccuracy; in many other aircraft there is little or no interaction due to different system design or redundancy.
The certification judgement should involve crew workload, conflicting alerts, ambiguity, and distraction; consideration of the wider situation, risk of assumption, and comparison with additional tasks on top of a range of normal procedures. Thus it could be argued that the 737 requires a different approach, this could involve training or from what has been learnt for these accidents, reconsidering the overall system - AoA, speed correction, low speed awareness, alerts …
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