I think this really belongs in [TECH] but as some won't like the material
I'll post it in [OT].
Lessons applicable in many other areas can be learned from this.

To me this has similarity on a smaller and larger scale  ($ & lives) with
STS Challenger disaster (and many other disasters).

- "Root cause": *Faulty circuit board solder joints *in a circuit board
allowed unsafe rudder angles in high speed flight.

Followed by: Improper over-ride of overlayed protective system by pilots
was possible and was carried out.

- (What seems to me personally only as) criminally-stupid contributing
cause: System was known to have had failed intermittently 20+ times
throughout 2014 and had never been fixed.

- Final fatal causes:

1. Pilots followed out a reset action they'd seen maintenance men use on
the ground.
2. Airbus system allowed auto-pilot and auto-thrust to be disabled by this
action and not restored.
3. Vastly inadequate pilot training.
4. Lack of worst case "'thinking it through" analysis of possible outcomes
by Airbus.

*Hackaday:*

Reasonable summary. Too many excuses offered for my liking.


http://hackaday.com/2015/12/04/airasia-crash-analysis-who-or-what-failed/

*Final Report:*
(206 page pdf)(in English)

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