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Old 4th Apr 2019, 19:08
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Originally Posted by EDLB
One common pattern between the Lion air and Ethopian air crash is, that the later/last manual trim up commanded from the coloum switches are in both cases only short blips, followed by 5 second trim down from the MCAS system.

I find it hard to believe that both pilots clinging on the control coloums for their dare life to get nose up do not try harder/longer on the electric trim as long as engaged and not cut out.

I assume that there is more to the story.
That the trim wheels didn't move because electric trim is not powerful enough at such high speed?
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