Two Sensors. It Believed the Broken One.

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Two sensors disagreed. The aircraft believed the broken one. Full video — The Plane That Flipped on Takeoff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_hGEzv1JFg

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Redundancy fails when the system cannot detect which sensor is lying, allowing a single faulty vane to cause disaster.

Two Sensors. It Believed the Broken One.

Why didn't redundancy save them?

Two Sensors. It Believed the Broken One.

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Two Sensors. It Believed the Broken One.