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		fredoralive on Feb 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hobby Club’s Missing Balloon Feared Shot Down by U... No, the 737 Max has 2 AoA sensors, it just used a bizarre “only use one at a time and ignore the other” approach to (non) redundancy.

sigmoid10 on Feb 16, 2023 [–]

If only that was the worst design issue with the 737 Max... It is astonishing how Boeing got away with that clusterfuck of a plane. All because they didn't wan't to invent a new body and beat Airbus to market.

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