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Old 6th Apr 2019, 01:11
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Originally Posted by deltafox44
Attempted level was FL320 !
From the narrative excerpted above:

At 05:41:21, the selected altitude was changed from 32000 ft to 14000 ft.
Addis airport elevation is 7657 feet.

Originally Posted by deltafox44
If Boeing NNC for trim runaway had included "reduce speed if manual trimming is too hard", perhaps they would have done it..
Or if it said 'don't forget to fly the plane!' Avoiding the overspeed by reducing power is pretty basic in my opinion.
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