{"id":268922,"date":"2019-04-10T07:24:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T07:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=268922"},"modified":"2019-04-10T07:33:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T07:33:03","slug":"how-flawed-software-high-speed-other-factors-doomed-an-ethiopian-airlines-boeing-737-max","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/how-flawed-software-high-speed-other-factors-doomed-an-ethiopian-airlines-boeing-737-max\/","title":{"rendered":"How flawed software, high speed, other factors doomed an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minutes after take-off, the pilots of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX were caught in a bad situation.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as the pilots retracted the flaps and slats, according to flight data, a key sensor began to feed faulty information into Boeing\u2019s Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), designed to prevent stalls.<\/p>\n<p>Flying at full take-off power, according to the flight data, the crew then struggled with nose-down commands from MCAS, four aviation experts told Reuters. The high speed and the jet\u2019s forward-leaning posture made it nearly impossible to use the controls to pull the nose up.<\/p>\n<p>Moments later, the Boeing Co jet hit the ground, killing all 157 people onboard after six minutes of flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minutes after take-off, the pilots of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX were caught in a bad situation. As soon as the pilots retracted the flaps and slats, according to flight data, a key sensor began to feed faulty information into Boeing\u2019s Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), designed to prevent stalls. Flying at full take-off power, according to the flight data, the crew then struggled with nose-down commands from MCAS, four aviation experts told Reuters. The high speed and the jet\u2019s forward-leaning posture made it nearly impossible to use the controls to pull the nose up. Moments later, the Boeing Co [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}