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Old Jun 24, 2019, 7:20 am
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Originally Posted by jrl767
YOUR assumption, maybe ...
It is supported by the actual experience with the 737 Max where the in-house Boeing simulation never envisioned AoA sensor defect which leads to MCAS to continuously intervene.

They only realized that was a test scenario AFTER lots of fatalities.

This is despite the fact that AoA sensors are critical to MCAS and has a known failure rate which is much higher than the 1-in-10,000,000 that the classification for MCAS required.
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