Here, we examine the design of MCAS in detail. This gets technical, as it needs to be if you want to understand precisely how a dangerous system came to be. The details of the story reveal many questionable decisions made during six years of routine engineering work.

Yes, Boeing took the easiest route to solve an apparently modest flight control problem. However, the story doesn’t demonstrate an overt intent to deploy an unsafe system, nor does it disclose any violation of regulations. Rather, we see a narrow following of the rules without sufficiently questioning the end result.

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