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Re:Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights can... by WalterBright on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @02:47PM (#28843490)
> pilot were not aware of MCAS and how it worked were the problems

If the pilots followed runaway trim procedure, which is how the MCAS failure manifested, they would have been fine. In fact, that's what the other unmentioned crew of a 737MAX did that survived MCAS malfunction and landed without incident.

Boeing issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive about the procedure, which the Egyptian Air pilots didn't follow, either.

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Re:Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights can... by bobthepanda on Saturday October 16, 2021 @02:16PM (#28890046)
I thought there were some conditions in which manually adjusting trim became physically impossible (or at least extremely difficult).
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