Originally Posted by
GordonR_Cape
I agree the article is badly worded. The point is, do you believe anything that Boeing and the FAA tell you at this stage? More proof is needed to regain trust, rather than assertions and paper circuit diagrams. Since MCAS cannot be independently turned on or off, there is no way for a maintenance technician to test any of this, nor a pre-flight check on a specific aircraft.
I will wait for the official report. MCAS is clearly an unintuitive and potentially lethal system when triggered by faulty AoA data. I'm not going to blame Boeing, the FAA, the pilots or airlines until we know the exact failure modes triggered in these two accidents.