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Comment When Boeing was good (Score 2) 78

A single point of failure would have been unthinkable.

The black box I worked on was only important enough to turn on a yellow light if it failed, and it ran the same algorithms in parallel on two processors with inputs inverted and logic DeMorganized, and it had a backup, and IIRC it could listen to more than one bus for air data.

Comment Layers of wrong, like an onion (Score 1) 148

I talked to one aerospace engineer who said his company immediately destroyed defective parts so there would be no risk of accidentally installing them.
On top of that, in any healthy organization it would be unthinkable to install them deliberately.
On top of that, when someone reported the situation, it should have been corrected immediately.
On top of that, it is pathological to retaliate against someone for doing his job.
It is hard to imagine fixing a corporate culture so utterly rotten.

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