Reply to post: 1 vs 3

After deadly 737 Max crashes, damning whistleblower report reveals sidelined engineers, scarcity of expertise, more

DaemonProcess

1 vs 3

Airbus - 3 sensors - more cost - but a far more reliable quorum.

Boeing - 1 sensor - cheap - Donald Ducked.

When my car window had a short-out the polarity (hot-cold) of my heater controls was reversed. Weird things can happen when electrical parts go bad.

When one goes bad out of a pair then it's hard to know which is right. That's why you need 3 of them.

The same is true of piezo speed sensors (Air France from Brazil icing).

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