Ethiopian airliner down in Africa

[yanrair]

Originally Posted by deltafox44

The 737 manuals says that incase of extreme nose-down out-of-trim, one should INCREASE speed to relieve elevator load and permit manual trimming.

That's insane !

(see https://www.satcom.guru/2019/04/what...-on-et302.html)

As you accelerate the plane pitches up due to lift being in front of cg and you need to trim nose down to fly level. And vice Versa. Lesson 1 of type rating course on sim covers this.