[SystemSafety] B737M MCAS

[Olwen Morgan]

North American engineering does not understand Ockham's Razor.

The Shuttle killed 14 astronauts. Soyuz has killed 4 cosmonauts.

You can even hear informed opinion saying that the F35 would come off 
worse against a modernised MiG 21 flown by a good pilot.

I'll believe that North American (or more particularly American) systems 
engineering is improving only when I see technical documentation written 
in clear and precise English that isn't three times as long as it need 
be. And if any quasi-literate American contributor to programming 
language standards thinks that cap fits them, they're absolutely correct.


selective regards,

Olwen



On 19/03/2019 13:38, Andy Ashworth wrote:
> In summary, there was a failure in the engineering of the overall 
> system rather than a failure within a specific component or 
> discipline. Sadly, I have found North American engineering focuses 
> heavily on individual components and specific engineering disciplines 
> which means that there is little attention paid to the system level 
> issues that all too often give rise to hazards / accidents.
>
> Best regards
>
> Andy Ashworth, P.Eng, C.Eng
>
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>
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 9:24 AM -0400, "Paul Sherwood" 
> <paul.sherwood at codethink.co.uk <mailto:paul.sherwood at codethink.co.uk>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Hi Daniel,
>     On 2019-03-18 09:01, Daniel Kästner wrote:
>     > Quite interesting overview from Seattle Times:
>     > https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/failed-certification-faa-missed-safety-issues-in-the-737-max-system-implicated-in-the-lion-air-crash/
>
>     As I and colleagues continue to attempt to understand where software
>     really fits into the system safety domain, we came across this
>     analysis...
>
>     https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-17/best-analysis-what-really-happened-boeing-737-max-pilot-software-engineer
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