Originally Posted by
FrequentSLF
with all respect, Sir
turn off magic... that was possible on previous 737, before max... lets do not talk about AB.
MAX is different from any other 737, you cannot turn off magic... in case of trim stab... you turn off power! Not magic, Sir, turn off power, and manual wheel is smaller than in the 400s...hence higher force required to crank.
still with all due respect Sir, how hard is to move the trim manually on a MAX? (If you ever tried)
Please read and heed the
entire mantra. The first step is to turn off the magic. A few steps later is “Trim the Aircraft”. That step is sufficient to take care of MCAS until the runaway trim procedure is executed. The manual trimming has always been a problem on multiple Boeings -
if you let it get grossly out of trim. The crew had the ability to not let it get there.
I’m sorry, but this is too much like the story of the kid who killed his parents and then requested mercy before the Court because he was an orphan. The lack of application of basic airmanship skills placed this aircraft in a situation where basic airmanship skills were no longer sufficient to save the ship. Too many people are looking at the five minute mark and declaring the aircraft to be unflyable without much regard as to what happened in the previous 4 minutes and 59 seconds.