Originally Posted by
phil gollin
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As someone who has followed this thread since the beginning, I do find it odd how some people are blaming the pilots for their actions when the discussions here BEFORE BOEING REVEALED THE EXISTENCE AND ACTIONS OF MCAS were so very different to those discussions much more recently.
People are "forgetting" the lack of knowledge, training and simulator knowledge of the system.
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I understand the intent here, but as revealed by the FDR traces, the crew of the fated flight clearly understood there was a trim issue, they repeatedly applied trim opposite to that applied by the automation (MCAS) - true, they may not have understand 'what' was applying the trim, but clearly they knew it was happening. The question is why did they not hit the cut off switches?
And the crew of previous flight also recognized there was a trim problem, but in their case almost immediately disabled the automated trim and trimmed via the mechanical trim wheels.
- GY