Originally Posted by
GordonR_Cape
Edit: The link posted by
ProPax gives the latest overview:
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/ar...ses-ne-457224/
The FAA is presumably not happy with all of this contradictory information, and being made to look sheepish by ongoing media revelations. The certification review should require detailed evidence, rather than the bland reassurances we had last November after the first MAX crash.
The article doesn't seem to know what it's talking about. MCAS is (temporarily) disabled by pilot use of the electric trim. There's no two steps down, one step up scenario at play here, where MCAS has greater authority over the stabiliser than the pilot. The only way MCAS puts the aircraft in an unrecoverable dive is if the pilot fails to trim out MCAS nose down inputs and then activates the stab trim cutout switches, leaving the pilot with manual trim only.