Originally Posted by Seattle Times, Aug 1 2019
As the FAA re-evaluates and recertifies the updated flight-control systems, it has specifically rejected Boeing’s assumption that the plane’s pilots can be relied upon as the backstop safeguard in scenarios such as the uncommanded movement of the horizontal tail involved in both the Indonesian and Ethiopian crashes. That notion was ruled out by FAA pilots in June when, during testing of the effect of a glitch in the computer hardware, one out of three pilots in a simulation failed to save the aircraft.
That shouldn't be overlooked, after all these long discussions about pilot error.