> The EAD was quite clear. Trim back to normal with the electric trim switches, then shut off the trim. I don't see that wording anywhere in EAD. Only the quot

> The EAD was quite clear. Trim back to normal with the electric trim switches, then shut off the trim. I don't see that wording anywhere in EAD. Only the quoted weasel worded sentence. It's your interpretation post-crashes and their analysis that they were supposed to do exactly that in exactly that order. Or do you have some other quote? The mental model the pilots were trained to was "if the electric doesn't work, switch it off, trim manually." The MCAS changed that to: 1) electric will work, but MCAS "invisible ghost" will pause to confuse you that the controls work and only then undo whatever you managed to do. 2) There's only one position in which turning off the switch was safe, under their circumstances -- switching to manual trim outside of the "normal" was a practical death sentence, also nowhere written. So, as far as I see, not only your "clear" sequence was nowhere written that clear, the mental model that the pilots had to have changed completely, but without training, and the safe procedure to escape was figured out only after looking at the logs of two crashes. That it is "clear" to somebody sitting in the armchair with the crash logs and having all the time in the world to think about it after all that happened doesn't mean that those who survived had such clearness, just that they had luck.