With all due respect, this sounds too much like the kind of armchair quarterbacking that routinely appears on HN when avionics/politics/astronomy is mentioned, where a lone programmer feels competent enough to criticize an industry for missing "something obvious".
I mean, this particular change might have saved the particular 737, but I'd rather hear it from someone who actually knows how 737s fly.
I mean, this particular change might have saved the particular 737, but I'd rather hear it from someone who actually knows how 737s fly.