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Flight/Risk

Especially once I starteddigging up information about the MAX's new flight control...

Especially once I started
digging up information about the MAX's new flight control system,
which is called the MCAS-- the Maneuvering Characteristics
Augmentation System

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Especially once I started digging up information about
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the MAX's new flight control system, which is called the MCAS--
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the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System.
Duration
13 seconds
Views
19
Timestamp in Movie
00:32:02
Uploaded
Apr 29, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
The Othrs

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Movie Summary

Everyday people find themselves in the midst of a global tragedy when two Boeing 737 Max planes crash in 2018 and 2019. Told through the perspective of affected family members, their legal teams, and whistleblowers.
The name of it is an awful acronym that tells you nothing. - Flight/Risk 00:04
The name of it is an awful acronym that tells you nothing.
I find it astonishing that you don't know about it. - Flight/Risk 00:05
I find it astonishing that you don't know about it.
All we knew early on was that MCAS was new flight control software - Flight/Risk 00:10
All we knew early on was that MCAS was new flight control so...
There's a big question about how this airplane was designed. - Flight/Risk 00:06
There's a big question about how this airplane was desi...
So the whole thing goes way back to, like, the '60s. - Flight/Risk 00:04
So the whole thing goes way back to, like, the '60s.
Newest arrival in the Boeing family of airliners, - Flight/Risk 00:07
Newest arrival in the Boeing family of airliners,
They want a jet that people can get onto and off of on a stairway, - Flight/Risk 00:09
They want a jet that people can get onto and off of on a sta...
So then, fast-forward to 2011... - Flight/Risk 00:05
So then, fast-forward to 2011...
The size of the engines meant they're gonna be dragging on the ground, - Flight/Risk 00:07
The size of the engines meant they're gonna be dragging...
The new engines are so big that the air gets underneath - Flight/Risk 00:10
The new engines are so big that the air gets underneath
A sensor feeds the flight control computer, - Flight/Risk 00:10
A sensor feeds the flight control computer,
But the system was just too strong. - Flight/Risk 00:04
But the system was just too strong.
Before the first crash, the pilot began a fight - Flight/Risk 00:10
Before the first crash, the pilot began a fight
And the plane was going in a roller-coaster ride. - Flight/Risk 00:05
And the plane was going in a roller-coaster ride.
I actually talked to pilots, - Flight/Risk 00:06
I actually talked to pilots,
Before the second crash, Boeing sent a senior vice president - Flight/Risk 00:09
Before the second crash, Boeing sent a senior vice president
And that turned into a pretty rough meeting. - Flight/Risk 00:05
And that turned into a pretty rough meeting.
I wasn't going to stay in the meeting. - Flight/Risk 00:05
I wasn't going to stay in the meeting.
When we saw the list of the Boeing personnel coming, - Flight/Risk 00:10
When we saw the list of the Boeing personnel coming,
I just sensed that they were not being direct or forthright. - Flight/Risk 00:06
I just sensed that they were not being direct or forthright.