Re:My Letter to the Editor of New York Times Magazine
by KaiserPro on Monday October 14, 2019 @05:00AM
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No it crashed because the MCAS malfunctioned.
That malfunction manifested as the plane pitching down consistently. No matter what the input of the stick, it'd point to the floor.
Now, if a big flashy light+warning buzzer had been sounding (like with a stall warning) then this would have never happened. But it didn't, and because the pilots were not trained for this specific feature (cause it had the same rating) They didn't know what to do.
Its nothing to do with stable. the MCAS silently pointed the plane at the floor regardless of user input.
That malfunction manifested as the plane pitching down consistently. No matter what the input of the stick, it'd point to the floor.
Now, if a big flashy light+warning buzzer had been sounding (like with a stall warning) then this would have never happened. But it didn't, and because the pilots were not trained for this specific feature (cause it had the same rating) They didn't know what to do.
Its nothing to do with stable. the MCAS silently pointed the plane at the floor regardless of user input.