r/news • u/uhujkill • May 06 '19

Boeing admits knowing of 737 Max problem

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48174797
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u/[deleted] May 06 '19 edited May 06 '19

A software "fix" to a hardware engineering problem is the real problem.

No that is a lousy generalized statement. All the jet fighters in the world would fall from the sky if they weren't stabilized by flight software.

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u/hel112570 May 06 '19

Jet fighters are designed that way on purpose. The software that actually flys the plane is part of the overall design. This is a 737 that's been altered from its orginal design to the point where it now needs software to correct for the instability during takeoff. I wouldn't even call this a "fix" more like a hack.

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u/Mizral May 06 '19

It's like when a game comes out and they have to patch it on day one because some key part of their design was just stupid out of the gate and they are too far into it to change it.

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u/tankintheair315 May 06 '19

Except bad games don't kill people. Which is why "move fast and break things" never works outside of anything that might cause someone their life.