Ethiopian airliner down in Africa

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Originally Posted by HundredPercentPlease

I disagree. Immediately (at the end of the rotation) the aircraft was indicating a stall, and so the crew performed a stall recovery (lowered AoA by reducing pitch and increasing speed).



It was three memory checklists:

1. Stall recovery.
2. UAS recovery.
3. Runaway stab (during the UAS recovery and aurally masked by the stick shaker).

The evidence is that 3 is too many - unless possibly you have a third pilot to monitor and assist.

I have a feeling that the Ethiopian captain may have engaged the autopilot as a pre-considered homebrew anti-MCAS strategy. Autopilot in = no MCAS risk.

MCAS would not be a factor until the flaps were up.