Originally Posted by
Eclectic
A low wing with underslung engines.
Open the throttles and the nose goes up. Close the throttles and the nose goes down.
Simple physics.
So when out of control aircraft systems were forcing the nose down at low altitude it would have taken balls of steel by the pilot to throttle back.
Keeping the throttle open was about the only tool open to him to fight to save his aircraft.
Not disagreeing with the physics. Having said that, the lack of pilot trim inputs after MCAS input, leading to the out of trim situation doesn't make me conclude that they kept the power where it was a decision, but more likely an oversight.
I am not sure if I would have done better, because of all the alarms going off it would have been a very difficult situation, and all the people here that say "power, pitch, attitude" have probably never been in there.