Originally Posted by
radken
But as for test pilots being left in the dark? Far from it I would venture. The latter would have been first to witness the new “bucking bronco” do her “characteristics” thing as she kicked up her heals to their spurs. Unless they’d been warned what maybe to expect (?), it must have been pretty unsettling. But that would be another story.
That is an interesting speculation, and you have good reason to expect it to be true. BUT, if there had been test flights under the original development program in which MCAS was caused to activate erroneously and the pilots recovered the situation gracefully then I am certain that Boeing would have quoted the flight data by now.
As no example of successful recovery from erroneous MCAS activation in flight HAS been publicly given I am assuming that none had occurred prior to the JT and ET tragedies