Originally Posted by
Maisk Rotum
Here we go again. For those that haven't flown the 737 there are two switches to turn off if the stab moves in an unintended way. They are turned off as a 'Memory Item'. The Lion crew never turned them off and the Ethiopian crew turned them off after the aircraft was so out of trim it was impossible to fly and then turned them back on again!!! Boeing is not entirely to blame for these two accidents but is certainly not blameless.
apparently Boeing internal comms suggested that you had as little as 10 seconds to flick those switches to prevent an unrecoverable scenario.
And that was discussed internally pre Ethiopian. As for the whole MCAS tied to a single AoA vane, well fck me, words can’t describe how insane that is