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Old 19th Jan 2020, 18:53
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Originally Posted by BDAttitude
Discovered during rollout:

https://www.seattletimes.com/busines...eings-737-max/

How was that: After all that scruntity, most extensively tested and safest piece of software ever!
Indeed. How can you possibly not notice that a system under active development is failing (or failing to perform) a POST (power-on self-test) or equivalent? If this is really true, it's a pretty remarkable oversight.

And then there's this:

It was confined to how it performs validation checks during startup and doesn’t involve its function during flight . . .
Well, umm . . . if a system doesn't properly run its validation checks on startup, why would we trust that it will properly perform "its function during flight?"
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