Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
The aircraft was more-or-less level and only just above Vmo at the point where those two brief applications of trim occurred.
The widely quoted 500 kts was subsequent to that, the result of the last episode of MCAS AND trim kicking in and the unrecoverable descent.
Also, they were in a 30 degrees bank turn when things started to really go wrong. Almost no pitch, 340 kts, no ability to pull or trim ANU, how can that work out? Before the bank had increased slowly over 2 to 3 minutes for whatever reason.
Then they were flying at 10000 feet, inside a MSA sector of 14000 ft, heading towards range with a peak of 11000 MSL, with little to no climb rate. Albeit in VMC, this alone is brutal.