Are airplanes 'too complex'? Should M.I.T. stay out of it? Our Scientist-In-Chief chimes in on airline safety.
Sensing that the Cambridge Crazies should stay out of this aviation safety stuff, I did a little research. Turns out they’re. Beyond founding Intel, Hewlett-Packard and some other tech outfits, two alums, James McDonnell and Donald Douglas, started a certain fly-by-night aerospace company whose name you can hopefully guess. Turns out McDonell-Douglas is now part of Boeing, which manufactured the Ethiopian Airlines plane. Perhaps that’s what Trump is referring to.
I decided to call M.I.T. itself to learn why their alums shouldn’t actually fly the planes. Alas, they had no comment. So I phoned my good friend John Abbamondi. He not only graduated from M.I.T. but also served as a naval flight officer and flew missions over Iraq. He was too flummoxed to chime in either.
In all seriousness, of course we need great pilots to make split-second decisions beyond what technological instruments might be telling them. Two years ago, while speeding down the runway in heavy winds, the plane carrying the Michigan men’s basketball team didn’t.
I wish there were more math-related lessons here. Unfortunately, Trump saying that planes are “far too complex to fly” – not just too complex, but, where someone looks at data and cherry-picks what backs up his beliefs. There was no data here. We still have no idea why Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed six minutes after takeoff. It might even have been pilot error.
The math we must pursue now is one of probability’s great challenges – seeing if two things are related or simply happenstance. This Boeing 737 Max 8 is the same plane involved in the last October’s Indonesian Lion Air
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