> MCAS automatically trims the horizontal stabilizer nose-down if it detects a high angle of attack I remember when I first heard about the MCAS issue and thou

> MCAS automatically trims the horizontal stabilizer nose-down if it detects a high angle of attack I remember when I first heard about the MCAS issue and thought "Why didn't the pilots just pull up?" and someone explained to me that MCAS worked by trimming, and it would trim nose-down so hard that even with full elevation to try to nose back up, it wasn't enough to overcome the extreme amount of nose-down from the trim. And since pilots weren't trained on the new MCAS system, they weren't aware that the trim would have been automatically moved.