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> pilots followed that procedure Were these pilots trained with the new procedure and the other pilots who died not trained?
by sumedh 5y ago
> pilots followed that procedure
Were these pilots trained with the new procedure and the other pilots who died not trained?
- WalterBright 5y agoNo. It was the LA flight immediately prior to the LA flight that crashed. They trimmed it back to normal a couple times, then just turned it off. Sounds too simple to be true, but it is true. There's a toggle switch on the console that cuts off power to the trim system. It's there in case of runaway trim.
- mlyle 5y agoJust to add, it was the normal "runaway trim" procedure-- nothing new. The thing is, this revealed a vulnerability: real pilots in runaway trim scenarios do not do nearly as well as they do in training. And 737MAX ended up testing crews with runaway trim scenarios at a much higher rate than they had been at the past. Some crews failed.