Indonesian aircraft missing off Jakarta

[StuntPilot]

Originally Posted by AGBagb

Apologies if this has been mentioned before (I can't find a direct post...). On an 737NG Ground School Slide Show I see the following:

When the STAB TRIM override switch is positioned to OVERRIDE, electric trim can be used regardless of control column position. The control column activated cut out switches are bypassed. [my emphasis]

Anyone know whether the Max is more-or-less the same? I.e., you can have tripped the cut-out switches, but their cut-out effect can be overridden?

Indeed it is not quite desirable to have the aircraft trim against the pilot input. But isn't the override an emergency function to be able to fly the aircraft using the trim buttons when having a jammed elevator? In that situation the last thing you'd want is MCAS taking over the 'elevator'. So hopefully MCAS ignores STAB TRIM OVERRIDE.