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F4E Mx
"While the issue didn’t involve the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System linked to the two accidents since October that killed 346 people, it could produce an uncommanded dive similar to what occurred in the crashes, according to one person, who wasn’t authorized to speak about the matter."-Bloomberg
Curious. They effectively wired in a short to the stabilizer jackscrew actuator under some conditions?
Solid state electronic modules have outputs. Electronic hardware failure is very likely to generate one of these at the output: Zero volts, max volts, or ground. If max volts or ground is going to drive some downstream component, then that's not really a safe failure mode.