What is the Boeing 737 Max Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System?
I&#x27;m struck by the connection between this and the Air France Airbus 332 which crashed en route from South America to France about a decade ago.<p>It seems that the 737MAX (at least, the one last year -- we don&#x27;t know about the latest one yet) crashed because a faulty sensor caused the computer to automatically point the nose down in order to avoid a perceived stall risk and the pilots weren&#x27;t able (or didn&#x27;t know how) to disable that.<p>In contrast, the 332 crashed because a faulty sensor misled the flight crew into pointing the nose up and getting into a stall.<p>In both cases, crashes resulted from reliance on a faulty sensor -- but in one case it was flight crew and in the other case it was software.  Solving this isn&#x27;t going to be as simple as saying &quot;the flight software should defer to the pilot&quot; or vice versa.