Ethiopian airliner down in Africa

[Lost in Saigon]

Originally Posted by alf5071h

The consensus, but not authoritative view is that pilot electric trim does not override MCAS; thus the summed tail trim movement is nose down at high rate. With increasing tail trim the counteracting electric trim may be progressively ineffective (summed tail forces), similarly the reduced manual trim wheel operation after electric trim is inhibited.
At some point it is likely that the elevator power, stick forces, reach a condition where further pitch control is unavailable. There are no conventional piloting skills which will be able to ‘fly the aircraft’.

The consensus is WRONG. Boeing clearly states that electric trim will STOP and even REVERSE unwanted MCAS operation.