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There was a PDF incident report going around earlier with a chart showing a graph of the inputs from MCAS and the pilots over a period of time. There was a "nos
by DougBTX 8y ago
There was a PDF incident report going around earlier with a chart showing a graph of the inputs from MCAS and the pilots over a period of time. There was a "nose down" command from MCAS, followed by a "nose up" command from the pilot, then a "nose down" command from MCAS, a "nose up" command from the pilot... repeated about 20 times in a row...
- mhandley 8y agoThe full preliminary report from the LionAir crash is here: https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2018-035-PK-LQP-Preliminary-Report.pdf https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/1... I've put the relevant figure showing the trim adjustments here: http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/lionair.png http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/lionair.png
- tyingq 8y agoYes, right, they would have had to figure out they needed to hold the wheel to keep it from auto-adjusting. Which wouldn't be real intuitive if you didn't know MCAS existed. Though holding the wheel is supposedly part of the normal runaway stabilizer trim checklist.