Originally Posted by
ironbutt57
i suppose never reducing the power from takeoff thrust didn't help the situation either did it
That is 100% correct.
Reasons they did not are human factor issues not procedure issues or memory items and do not forget never ever has an American crew been faced with a MCAS issue in 57,000 flights. So it is only an assumption they may have been equal in performance to one other crew that faced it. Never has an American crew correctly dealt with a MCAS event but only a foreign crew with less than a 1500 hr limit for a commercial licence .