Originally Posted by
CONSO
from seattle times
What a gather from that is that by sending commands to the stab, MCAS actually can directly effects pitch attitude and not just colum forces. In fact it effects pitch even more so than the elevators. That is, it has more pitch authority. So in the Lion Air incident, the FDR recorded the pilots pulling back with 100lbs force before crash. It seems they could not over power the negative pitch attitude created by a full nose down stab trim.