Originally Posted by
derjodel
Then another question is, why were the cutout switches changed to prevent manual electric trim along with MCAS. There must be a reason. Without a reason it makes no sense. Did Boeing by any chance estimated that keeping the electric trim on without MCAS could easily put the airplane in the high AoA situation as described above? That could be another smoking gun. If that is not the reason to change the switches, then what was it? Any reasonably ideas?
If the switches weren't changed then you could be flying the plane in manual mode with MCAS disabled. Kind of defeats the whole purpose of it. Much easier for Boeing to just fudge that too.