India, March 20 -- It was a mid air struggle. On one hand there was the Ethiopian Airlines' Boeing's MCAS computer system erroneously stalling the flight (letting the plane go down); and on the other, the flight's captain, trying to get the aircraft up so that it does not crash. In the end, the helpless captain failed, the computer won, and 189 passengers died as the flight crashed.

There are several cases of indicative IT failure leading to tragedies. The France Air Airbus 330 fell into the Atlantic Ocean in June 2009 killing 228 passengers on board. The last 10 years has seen many IT malfunction and failure related accidents and near accidents - killing and injuring hundreds. Quantas flight 72, AeroPehru flight 603, Adam Air flight 574...