{"id":7844,"date":"2019-04-24T09:18:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T09:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=7844"},"modified":"2019-04-24T09:18:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T09:18:33","slug":"how-the-boeing-737-max-disaster-looks-to-a-software-developer-ieee-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/24\/how-the-boeing-737-max-disaster-looks-to-a-software-developer-ieee-spectrum\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer &#8211; IEEE Spectrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>I have been a pilot<\/strong>\u00a0for 30 years, a software developer for more than 40. I have written extensively about both aviation and software engineering. Now it\u2019s time for me to write about both together.<br \/>\nThe Boeing 737\u00a0Max has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/04\/09\/business\/boeing-737-max-deliveries\/index.html\">been in the news<\/a>\u00a0because of two crashes, practically back to back and involving brand new airplanes. In an industry that relies more than anything on the appearance of total control, total safety, these two crashes pose as close to an existential risk as you can get. Though airliner passenger death rates have fallen over the decades, that achievement is no reason for complacency.<br \/>\nThe 737 first appeared in 1967, when I was 3 years old. Back then it was a smallish aircraft with smallish engines and relatively simple systems. Airlines (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/gulliver\/2012\/06\/18\/the-secrets-of-southwests-continued-success\">especially Southwest<\/a>) loved it because of its simplicity, reliability, and flexibility. Not to mention the fact that it could be flown by a two-person cockpit crew\u2014as opposed to the three or four of previous airliners\u2014which made it a significant cost saver. Over the years, market and technological forces pushed the 737 into ever-larger versions with increasing electronic and mechanical complexity. This is not, by any means, unique to the 737. Airliners constitute enormous capital investments both for the industries that make them and the customers who buy them, and they all go through a similar growth process.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/aerospace\/aviation\/how-the-boeing-737-max-disaster-looks-to-a-software-developer\">How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer &#8211; IEEE Spectrum<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a pilot\u00a0for 30 years, a software developer for more than 40. I have written extensively about both aviation and software engineering. Now it\u2019s time for me to write about both together. The Boeing 737\u00a0Max has\u00a0been in the news\u00a0because of two crashes, practically back to back and involving brand new airplanes. In an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/24\/how-the-boeing-737-max-disaster-looks-to-a-software-developer-ieee-spectrum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer &#8211; IEEE Spectrum&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}