Originally Posted by
Maninthebar
The kicker to this is that Boeing engineers found that their original implementation (presumably not based on guesswork) was markedly insufficient to meet the need they had identified. Therefore a naive person might imagine that the 'delicate problem' as originally scoped turned out to be much more indelicate on the final airframe.
It is therefore unsurprising that certifying authorities would/should want to know what might be happen, and how air crew should respond, in the event of MCAS Fail Off
Pitch & Power, Pitch & Power. Hard to admit, regardless of mcas or whatsoever antistall system, would have saved the day.