Originally Posted by
ironbutt57
weren't both airplanes that crashed in fact totally controllable if the stab trim checklist were complied with?, regardless of where the pilots were from?
The USA pilots that did a SIM reconstruction used up all 8,000 ft of altitude to recover by using the yo-yo procedure not in MAX checklist.
So that would a NO, or if the Yo-Yo was in the checklist a maybe but dependant on calibration tolerances.
And they were prepared for the reconstruction.