Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX Investigation Preliminary Report

Re:Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX Investigation Preliminary Report by tmd83 on Thursday April 04, 2019 @08:05PM (#19578374)

I'm not versed in the terminologies. What I understood was told previously is that

In similar condition (nose down) in other plane just pulling the stick would work but with MCAS you have shut it down using some switch and just the stick won't work.

And now the report is saying even that switch doesn't work? That one MCAS goes bonkers there's essentially no recourse?

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Re:Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX Investigation Preliminary Report by cjbprime on Friday April 05, 2019 @12:24AM (#19579678)

The switch works to disable MCAS, but at the cost of also disabling the trim motor, which is what you need to use to recover from what MCAS was doing before you disabled it.

It is as ludicrous as it sounds.

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