In my opinion the pilots here have attempted to follow that checklist as well as could be expected (bearing in mind that their lives depended on it). Having to

In my opinion the pilots here have attempted to follow that checklist as well as could be expected (bearing in mind that their lives depended on it). Having to trim to neutral before disengaging the trim would have contradicted the normal trim runaway checklist. We're now talking about pilots having to have abnormal levels of skill and possibly even strength to fly this aircraft. That's an untenable state of affairs. Boeing have really screwed this one up.