What the 737 crashes show us about the dangerous intersection of new tech and old equipment
Investigators probing two deadly crashes of Boeing Co. 737 MAX airliners are grappling with a hybrid of old and new technology, where a complex piece of software controls hydraulic pumps and motors similar to those used when Lyndon Johnson was president.
The plane, first designed in the 1960s and modernized three times, is caked with successive generations of technology superimposed on each other. Digital retrofits to older equipment like the 737 MAX’s anti-stall system—known as MCAS and suspected of having contributed to...
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