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Do we know how much the speed was a factor? Would slowing down have reduced the forces to make cranking the manual trip possible?
by secabeen 7y ago
Do we know how much the speed was a factor? Would slowing down have reduced the forces to make cranking the manual trip possible?
- olliej 7y agoNo, the only way to recover as far as I can tell is to do the roller coaster thing. From what I can make out MCAS points the plane at the ground, so it accelerates - I don’t know if it also increases thrust but if it’s meant to be anti-stall maybe it does? The only way to reduce load once you’re at those speeds with a faulty plane (as far as I can understand it) is to keep pointing to the ground and move the trim control a bit, pull up again (which reintroduces the load) to gain altitude, then point down again and repeat until you’ve defeated the unsafe aircraft.