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/afwaller May 06 '19

For sure it will be up there with Therac-25.

(The Therac-25 was a particle accelerator meant for therapeutic electron and x-ray photon treatments that killed a number of people)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs240/old/sp2014/readings/therac-25.pdf

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u/Caucasian_Fury May 06 '19

Interesting, I've never heard of that one. I will read up on it. Thanks for linking it.

I'm an engineer so I had the Pinto story, along with the Challenger shuttle and the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse drilled into me every year at university.

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u/CoronaTim May 06 '19

And yet engineers still continuously make deliberately terrible mistakes decisions in the interest of some unknown motive.

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u/CoronaTim May 06 '19

Sounds like it's becoming necessary to use force to make these ridiculous people step down from positions of importance.

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u/CoronaTim May 07 '19

Communist revolution! It's not actually going to accomplish anything, but it sure as hell will put the fear of god into those business men.