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Aviation Case Study: When Automation Outran Human Adaptation — Lion Air Flight 610
On October 29th, 2018 , Lion Air Flight 610 , a Boeing 737 MAX 8, took off from Jakarta bound for Pangkal Pinang.Twelve minutes later, it disappeared into the Java Sea.All 189 people on board were lost. The cause wasn’t weather, nor pilot inattention.It was automation — doing exactly what it was programmed to do, in the wrong conditions. A faulty Angle of Attack (AoA) sensor sent incorrect data to the aircraft’s Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) — a n
Edward Brathwaite
Aug 112 min read
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