Southwest management has a history of making gratuitous statements. For example, in March 2019 before the 737 MAX was grounded: "Because MCAS is only designed

Southwest management has a history of making gratuitous statements. For example, in March 2019 before the 737 MAX was grounded: "Because MCAS is only designed to operate in rare conditions while pilots are manually flying, pilots should never see the system in operation."