Boeing is currently under two criminal investigations for the faulty design of their 737 Max 8 planes: In this video it actually started off showing you what the pilot would be experiencing when they fail to overpower the badly designed MCAS. Even though it was just a simulation, it was scary just looking at it. Can't imagine what the doomed pilots must be going through during the last minutes or seconds of their lives. Boeing absolutely needs to go to jail along with the idiot supplier who designed the faulty anti-stall sensor that actually fed incorrect information to the MCAS that caused the MCAS to nose-dive the plane. Here is a video that actually explains how and why 737 Max 8 faults in its design that killed 300+ people:
Manual input must always have the ability to override auto-controls. This is common sense. Boeing was a collective moron for allowing this to happen. But they will recover from this mess, because they are at least half the world's commercial aircraft fleet, and the Max planes are but a small percentage of that.
It did let you correct, but then the miss reading dipped the nose again, up down up down up down up down all the way into the nasty for the pilot
The autopilot on planes should be like the cruise control on cars. Once the thing disengages, it does not re-engage until the pilot does so by re-activating it manually. And I do not care if it is a Cessna bugsmasher, or an A380. You do NOT fuck with the pilot's ability to maintain control of the aircraft under manual control. The pilots usually know more about the condition of their craft than the computers do, and can safely maneuver the ship. This is called pilotage.
Wasn't an autopilot issue, it was a stall alert issue, when it sensed a stall, it pitched the nose down, like a car with automatic brake avoidance thinking it's going to crash and emergency stopping every 50ft. 3 days before that plane crashed, the same happened, they had another pilot being transfered in the cockpit, that gave them someone to work out the issue and solved it, while the other 2 fought the plane.
The plane should not be doing that once the pilots have control of the craft, by making positive inputs on the controls... They should not have to fight the plane! Ugg!!!
Correct, but it wasn't autopilot, the plane thought it was about the stall as a air speed sensor malfunctioned they only had 1 stupidly, they had the option for extra for a 2nd backup sensor but saved $5000 or something stupid. The plane software was trying to stop a stall and the plane falling out of the sky, wrongly. Planes these days are all fly by wire, very complicated, makes the planes much easier and safer most of the time to fly, they just screwed this 1 up sadly
Oh, and this is an important point... Aircraft should not be "thinking". They are machines, and they need to succumb to their masters, who most of the time know better than they do WTF is going on. We need to stop Skynetting the machines, or liquid metal really will visit us from the future and fuck up John Conner. Then life ends. Whoops!
No the autopilot, is what flys it from airport to airport with very little pilot input, they can turn that off and fly it manually. This was a malfunctioning anti stall safely device that went wrong, autopilot was off. It's a good idea, if not for a faulty sensor that was under reading the air speed.