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Saw this article today. The Boeing 737 Max crisis goes way beyond software ~Tim Fernholz "By now, you may well have heard of MCAS, software that automatically pitches 737 Maxes downward to avoid stalling in mid-air. It exists only because Boeing wanted to upgrade its 737 without changing it...

I found this sort of frightening. This is one of the complaints about the 737MAX from a pilot. "In addition, there are two selector knobs that are under-explained (i.e., not explained) in the manual, and we were uncertain what their purpose was. One is under the Fuel Flow switch and the other...

Well, I'm not a pilot, but I was a legacy Hornet mechanic for 20+ years in the Corps. And in all that time I never encountered a situation where software caused the airframe to depart normal flight. 90% of the time it was a mechanical issue that the flight control computers tried to compensate...