Originally Posted by
ManaAdaSystem
The Boeing NNC regarding runaway trim, or MCAS, has never told us to trim to neutral before placing the switches to cut off.
(Not a pilot) This random internet grab from 2009 (authenticity unknown to me) does say to use electric trim and does not say to apply it again if runaway continues.
As these are terse instructions, if one might soon be grabbing a rotating wheel, and not long after that, hand cranking it, [would he] not want to do the best possible work with the electric trim before cutout?