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Old 16th Mar 2019, 20:11
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Originally Posted by reamer
If it turns out to be mcas for this flight loss and the stab trim switches are found to be in the on position then the pilots are 100% to blame for all those lost lives.
What an ignorant comment. From a systems perspective, if aircraft design results in a situation that is 100% reliant on crew to flick the stab trim switches off, in a time critical, startling, highly dynamic scenario, the fault is almost entirely with the design of the aircraft. I thought we'd moved on a bit from the 'blame the human at the end of the error chain' mentality, but clearly some among us still have some way to go.
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