Ethiopian Crash

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I wrote what I hope might be a helpful parable…

“The 172Max”: A Parable

A parable or “thought experiment” to help explain the 737Max The 737 has a long and well-deserved history of being reliable, simple to operate and simple to maintain. To many pilots, the modern “seven-three” is a refreshingly manual machine that coexists with airliners that are much more automated and complex. Explaining why the failure of a system called MCAS on the newest version of the plane, the Max, can be so confounding to pilots who didn’t know of its existence before the crashes has pro…