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Old 19th Feb 2022, 11:01
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Maisk Rotum
 
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Yes. I would do the memory items for Runaway Stab and then fly the aircraft manually. There is no way if you had been trained properly on the aircraft, if you were armed with MCAS knowledge as the ET crew were, if you could fly a jet with pitch and power, if you valued your life, you would not have immediately hit the the Stab Trim switches or asked your colleague to do it the second the thing was trimming away from your desired state. Read the report and tell me how long it took ET to put the Stab Trim switches to cutout and how many cycles of MCAS nose down they had before the FO, yes FO, suggested to the Capt to put them to cutout. Yes they had simultaneous stall and overspeed warnings but Boeing didn't invent the Unreliable Airspeed memory items after these crashes. Keep in mind both aircraft were in daylight VMC. They could see their horizon. Boeing took short cuts for sure to keep their competitor from gaining an edge on them. They assumed pilots were more capable and that's their gross miscalculation.
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