As I said, I would not put the blame on the pilots. That is clear. Boeing made an unsafe airplane. Airline safety is a layered thing though. Even if it's Bo

As I said, I would not put the blame on the pilots. That is clear. Boeing made an unsafe airplane. Airline safety is a layered thing though. Even if it's Boeing's fault, it's possible that the pilots could have recovered, even though it looks like recovery is not necessarily easy. I also have a fair bit more than 200 hours, and I can't say whether I would have made a smoking hole in the ground or not either. Still, if I were put in that position, I would much rather have an experienced pilot sitting to the right of me. Having an inexperienced pilot that probably hasn't ever experienced a real emergency is a significant liability when you're trying to troubleshoot something like this without a lot of extra time. In this case, they would have had a better chance of surviving if they had identified that the problem was MCAS before the plane got so wildly out of trim, or they had made the decision to turn the electric trim back on sooner. This is a lot easier if you've got two fully fledged pilots instead of effectively a captain and an apprentice. Say what you will about the 1500 hour rule, but there has been precisely one fatality in all of U.S. aviation in the ten years since the Colgan flight.