Originally Posted by
xyze
Checkmate - they were damned if they did (use trim cutout switches) and damned if they didn't. Seems that at the point they shut of the system the AND trim was more than the elevators could overcome and with ever increasing speed in the dive manual trim was not an option. what would you do? try flying inverted (as with the air Alaska accident )? May explain the last minute roll .
If the column forces were too high, one option (if you hadn't worked out how to engage the manual trim, which these guys hadn't) is to turn the trim back on, correct it with the normal electric trim switches, and then turn it off again before MCAS kicks back in. You asked what I would do, that's what I would do.