This problem was one of too much automation, which decided that the best course of action was to fly the plane into the ground. In a less automated system, the

This problem was one of too much automation, which decided that the best course of action was to fly the plane into the ground. In a less automated system, the pilots would have been able to enable electrical trim systems without also having their trim control overridden by MCAS and would have been able to recover flight control that way.