Boeing 737 pilots battled confused safety system that plunged aircraft to their deaths – black box • The Register

Boeing 737 pilots battled confused safety system that plunged aircraft to their deaths – black box • The Register
"Data suggests one of plane's many brains was stuck in anti-stall mode-By Shaun Nichol
With investigations continuing into the cause of Lion Air flight 610's deadly crash into the Java Sea, experts are scrutinizing the plane's automated control system.
Early data from the doomed plane's flight recorder suggests that for much of its 11-minute flight on October 29, the pilots were struggling with the craft's Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS).
In effect, they were wrestling with software and hardware inadvertently trying to kill them.
...Peter Lemme, a longtime aeronautics exec and consultant who analyzed the early reports, estimates this month that the pilots fought with the MCAS system, pulling the plane's nose up 26 times before finally losing control and crashing the 737 into the Java Sea at more than 450 knots.
All 189 people on board perished..."
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