Originally Posted by
efatnas
I read a lot of Airbus Boeing finger pointing but I think in both one needs to understand the systems to fly. As hopefully everybody understands now how to disconnect the horizontal stab from it’s muscle I rest my case. It looks like basic understanding of airplane fundamentals still goes a long way even today and both crews should have never flown the airplane without it, assuming the Ethiopian plane had the same problem as the Lion air of course.
That's fine efatnas, providing you know that those airplane fundamentals have changed... aren't we being told that communication and documentation from Boeing on MCAS was lacking or certainly insufficient .. considering this system messed in a previously unheard of way with the stabiliser trim ?