Originally Posted by
Loose rivets
This time it was the bizarre coincidence of two disparate faults that exposed the fallibility of the single sensor, but that's 'all' it was. Hard to say the word, but that's all it was. But it opened the can. What is so hard to visualise is just how different the lives of thousands would be if two small components hadn't failed. Is it possible that an airliner can be produced that could self correct issues and always fail safe? I think we could possibly get close to that in twenty years, but not while the free world model of competition is allowed to eat at the moral fabric of corporations. The two just don't go together. Aviation a special case? It won't happen. You don't have to search long for far greater disregard for human life, and that's getting worse by the patent.
Thats 'all' you say? The fact that Boeing designed a system without any redundancy in this day and age is nothing more than criminal. As long there are components they will fail. And espescially with components which affect the basic flying of the aircraft there should be at least 2 channels. It is just gross negligence.
No MAX for me .....