Originally Posted by oil_film_movies
From the looks of this, I think they will eventually get some green young engineer and/or experienced one to testify, matching internal emails, that they noted runaway trim due to MCAS stab trim movement could pester a pilot enough to confuse them in flight, as it did with the lightly-trained Lion Air and Ethiopian pilots. I know the thought was pilots would "simply" hit the trim cutout switches if they didn't like pitch behavior, so don't worry about this MCAS mode. Their defense.
"Lightly trained" is a huge factor in these crashes. And as pointed out earlier, after the Lion Air crash, Boeing informed everyone flying the 787 Max of the possible MCAS safety concerns while they were actively working on changes to the system to enhance its safey.
For some reason the pilots of the Ethiopian crash didn't react correctly even though they supposedly got the safety concern information. Where did that fall through the cracks. All they had to do is just shut off the MCAS system. Why didn't they know to do that after being told about it - where's the disconnect?
From the looks of this, I think they will eventually get some green young engineer and/or experienced one to testify, matching internal emails, that they noted runaway trim due to MCAS stab trim movement could pester a pilot enough to confuse them in flight, as it did with the lightly-trained Lion Air and Ethiopian pilots. I know the thought was pilots would "simply" hit the trim cutout switches if they didn't like pitch behavior, so don't worry about this MCAS mode. Their defense.
"Lightly trained" is a huge factor in these crashes. And as pointed out earlier, after the Lion Air crash, Boeing informed everyone flying the 787 Max of the possible MCAS safety concerns while they were actively working on changes to the system to enhance its safey.
For some reason the pilots of the Ethiopian crash didn't react correctly even though they supposedly got the safety concern information. Where did that fall through the cracks. All they had to do is just shut off the MCAS system. Why didn't they know to do that after being told about it - where's the disconnect?