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Bend alot
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 .
Human factors issues why they did not do a simple, memory checklist? If that is the case, the travelling public is doomed if professional pilots couldn’t even do a simple drill of turning off the automatics, setting an attitude and power setting and flying the aircraft. If professional pilots can’t do that then they (and their passengers) totally screwed with a substantive emergency such as an engine failure, a rapid decompression, smoke in the cockpit, etc. which require a lot more moxy to address.
While you claim that “human factors” prevented the crews of the accident aircraft from doing the UAS checklist, can you explain how the crew of the Lion Air incident aircraft the previous day managed to do the UAS checklist, control the aircraft, deal with the MCAS trim issue, then fly for an hour and a half to the planned destination with unreliable airspeed while manually trimming the aircraft. We’re they super human? Or did just do what was expected of type rated B737 pilots? I would submit it was the latter.