Originally Posted by
Capn Bloggs
So we're test pilots too now? No mention anywhere by Boeing of keeping the speed down, these guys were probably totally focussed on the MCAS issue, not your bog-standard UAS/80%. Ask yourself: when did you last pull off a handful of thrust at 1000ft above ground, straight after takeoff with the stick shaker going? I would suggest that some pilots don't even touch the thrust levers after takeoff normally, let alone have it in their muscle memory to do it when all hell has just broken loose.
Any professional pilot would already have a very good visual concept of what happened here. Absolutely no need to watch someone dying, thanks.
that's the thing. What testing was done by Boeing to ensure this vital sequence of actions was debugged? The stick shaker was also present on other flights but was ignored by the AD. MCAS runaway was just the endgame of a series of events. That would have taken more time to fully test and document. It would have also been more complex, perhaps necessitating the grounding of the plane so that pilots could have more training. There was no time in that cockpit for the data of debate that are going on in the web.