mid-flight though?
On some (all?) Airbus planes, the basic flight controls don’t require the flight computers to function.
I would honestly hope that would be true about any airplane from any manufacture. Fly-by-wire makes some of that more difficult when the wires go through the computer, but even then I'd have assumed some sort of 100% manual capability. Like when Y2K nutters were predicting airplanes falling out of the sky because of 2-digit years rather than the logical the planes would behave according to laws of physics for an intact air frame.
This simply does not and cannot happen to an airline. If it does people will be fired and processes revised.
with the current state of Boeing, nothing would surprise me, and there's very little i would accept at face value from them.
Maybe if there's a really badly run airline it might be a problem, but there are much more severe problems than software in a case like that.
Boeing gets away with this software issue because it's not really a big issue. The scary point the media can tell you because you don't have context to understand why it's mundane.
Yes, like the mundane software overriding pilot's intent from software written specifically to not retrain pilots on the system? Yup, sounds mundane to me.
When I said I don't trust anything from Boeing, it had little to do with this 50 day reboot, but much more in line with the Boeing is allowed to self certify and has been shown to not do that in a good way. They have ruined that trust because of greed. You might think that's a broad brush? At this point, every little bit is just another instance of death from a thousand cuts.