Originally Posted by
hans brinker
It is about time. There is no difference between the NG and the MAX in manual trim, so if the pilots were unable to manually trim in the last crash, they wouldn't have been able to trim in any of the 6500 B737s flying.
So what you are saying is that all pre-Max versions of the 737 are unsafe? I don't think that is what the 'article' is implying. Has there ever been a non-Max 737 crash caused by inability of the crew to trim the horizontal stab?