Originally Posted by
Rananim
Prelim report is perplexing.At face value it appears that the crew did cutout
the required switches(only after 2 bursts of MCAS ) with stabilizer at 2.1
units but FO couldnt get the manual trim working.FO has 200 hours
so this is not surprising.
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Agree with many of your points, esp on failure to react to ever increasing speed. The report mentions setting a speed target at some point, perhaps they thought auto throttle was working?
That said do disagree with statements on manual trim, pretty strong evidence that at the speed and trim they were in it would be physically very hard or impossible to trim manually without unloading maneuvers that the did not have the altitude for and/or knowledge/training of.