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Re:Review of 737 Max Certification Finds Fault with Boeing a... by bbojan on Friday October 11, 2019 @04:17PM (#21228063)
I think there is a lot of misinformation in your post.

The pilots didn't follow the airspeed unreliable procedure, and oversped the aircraft. Maybe it's the best they could do, but definitely not what they were expected (and trained) to do.

Electric trim is not turned off "when the yoke is pulled" - it's momentarily turned off when electric trim thumb switches on the yoke are pressed.

And they switched it back on because they couldn't manually re-trim due to very high speed that the plane was travelling at that point.

BTW the airplane was a 737 Max, not 737-NG.

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Re:Review of 737 Max Certification Finds Fault with Boeing a... by ScottBurson on Friday October 11, 2019 @06:23PM (#21229033)
> BTW the airplane was a 737 Max, not 737-NG.

I believe the parent's point was that they did what would have made sense in the NG, not realizing it wouldn't have the same result in a Max.

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