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.
Runaway Stab training only entered the syllabus after these events.
No one is immune to startle factor. Even heros - both real heros and pprune heros!
System design must not rely on an ace response in 10 seconds.