Harsher in Hindsight: "Through the Looking Glass" has airline computers that can be hacked to send the plane into a nosedive. "The sidestick gives the pilot a vote, and the computer can veto it." The crashes of Boeing 737 Max 8 planes in 2019 have been caused by faulty angle of attack sensors sending the planes into similar nosedives that the pilots couldn't override note Or rather they can override it by disabling the system, but the pilots weren't trained in how to do so due to Boeing wanting the plane to have same type classification as 737 and pretty much omitted the information.
