> didn't know their altitude Presumes they felt they could trust their instruments under the circumstances of the emergency. Asking ATC for your altitude when

> didn't know their altitude Presumes they felt they could trust their instruments under the circumstances of the emergency. Asking ATC for your altitude when you're unsure doesn't seem unreasonable? > didn't throttle back I think not throttling back when you have an unreliable airspeed indicator (as these flights did) is actually a checklist item. If you don't know how fast you're going, you don't know how far above stall speed you are. Anyway, this seems really crappy. Saying that the pilots couldn't deal with runaway trim seems very unfair when MCAS placed them in an aerodynamic situation where the runaway trim procedure doesn't actually work because you can't supply enough physical strength to the trim wheels and you've had to disable the motor because it was behaving maliciously.