AutonomousCritical
Crashes with Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS)
- Occurred
- Oct 27, 2018
- Published
- Nov 28, 2018
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A Boeing 737 crashed into the sea, killing 189 people, after faulty sensor data caused an automated manuevering system to repeatedly push the plane's nose downward.
Developers
- Boeing
Deployers
- Boeing
Harmed parties
- Airplane passengers
- Airplane crew
Tags
- variant:unreviewed
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 100%
Rationale: MCAS is an automated flight control system causing fatal crashes due to faulty sensor data.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8