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[How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer](https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-the-boeing-737-max-disaster-looks-to-a-software-developer)

The 737 Max's engine redesign made the plane aerodynamically unstable, prone to pitching nose-up into a stall at high power, and Boeing's software fix, MCAS, concealed this instability rather than correcting it—contributing to two fatal crashes.