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I don't think they had the altitude to recover, if it was even a recoverable MCAS issue to begin with.

• cjbprime 8y ago
  I think they did -- it looks like it took six minutes from the first distress call claiming a control issue (at 7000ft) to impact, and they stayed at around 7000ft for much of those six minutes.
  • linuxftw 8y ago
    You're confused as the information is not widely available. That's 7k ft about sea level. From [1]: > The aircraft climbed very slowly and only to about 1,000ft above ground before crashing. https://leehamnews.com/2019/03/15/bjorns-corner-the-ethiopian-airlines-flight-302-crash/ https://leehamnews.com/2019/03/15/bjorns-corner-the-ethiopia...
    • cjbprime 8y ago
      Thanks, I see. Still, around six minutes seems a decent amount of time to fix a flight control problem once you know about it?
      • SomeHacker44 8y ago
        Clearly not, as they did not.