One Sensor Took Control of the Plane

Añadido: 2026-05-15

[00:00:00]To fix this hardware problem, Boeing created a software solution.

[00:00:04]It was called MCAS.

[00:00:06]If it sensed the nose was getting too high, it would automatically push the nose back down.

[00:00:12]And they didn't even mention it in the pilot's manual.

[00:00:16]Most pilots around the world took to the skies in a multi-million dollar machine unaware that there was a powerful software ghost in the cockpit with them capable of taking control of the aircraft. The pilots fought until the very end, but they didn't even know the system they were fighting existed.