Maybe. Maybe he was one of the Yeager, Doolittle or Lindbergh clones we have here or like Luke?
You don’t have to be Chuch Yeager or the ace of the base to operate the Stab Trim Cutout switches if the stab is starting to run away in increments or continuously.
Been doing it in various Boeing simulators for 30 years and once in real life, pretty basic stuff, really..
We still don’t know what happened in Etiophia, it has been quiet after they got the FDR and CVR readouts. Could have been a bunch of things other than faulty AoA or MCAS.
If it was a runaway stab however, you don’t have to be Chuck Yeager to stop it cold.