ET302’s crew (the second Max crash) also knew about the plane’s fault mode and almost saved the craft. If they’d have continued to command nose-down manually [a

ET302’s crew (the second Max crash) also knew about the plane’s fault mode and almost saved the craft. If they’d have continued to command nose-down manually [after correctly executing the runaway trim disable checklist memory items and then re-enabling the power to the offending system in order to command aircraft-nose-down trim for a short time], they’d have almost surely flown the airplane back to base. It was Boeing’s fault, but the crew almost saved it and inexplicably re-enabled the fault after correcting it. They were so close…