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Hardly seems like "pilot error" when the crew that died didn't know how to deactivate a system they were never told existed.
by brokenmachine 7y ago
Hardly seems like "pilot error" when the crew that died didn't know how to deactivate a system they were never told existed.
- WalterBright 7y agoIt could be deactivated by shutting off the stab trim motors. The switches for it are right there on the center console, and pilots are trained to throw those switches in the event of stab trim runaway. The MCAS failure presented itself as stab trim runaway. It's like if your car engine runs away, you turn off the ignition. It is not necessary to know why it ran away, just that you can shut off the engine. (Which I have had occasion to do.)
- tigershark 7y agoyes, but you forget to mention that before the second crash they actually disabled the stab trim motors and they couldn't manually correct the trim trying to turn the wheel with all their strength so they had to reengage them and that activated again MCAS and puff.. Or are you saying that is their fault because they should have been stronger than that killing machine?