Originally Posted by
sullim4
As a consumer and definitely not a pilot, I honestly don't know what to think here.
On the one hand, this plane has been inspected and gone over with a fine toothed comb by government regulators. On the other hand, there are still articles being published by authors who claim to know what they are talking about that attack the basic design of these aircraft as inherently unsafe and not worthy of commercial travel.
My understanding (which could not be entirely correct) is that the original problem happened due to a single point of failure, i.e. one angle sensor that could by itself cause these issues if it malfunctioned. I believe the correction was to add a second sensor, which allows the system to detect a single failure, alert the pilot and disable the system.