Originally Posted by
flyingeph12
Need I point out the implication of the part about the crew? Who approved this?
I thought that part was very interesting as well. From what we know about lion air, it's pretty clear that under the right conditions the plane can start making erroneous control inputs. However, there is a procedure for the pilots to disable this system and avert a crash - and all AA pilots were trained on it following lion air. AA clearly has confidence in their pilots that this is sufficient from a safety perspective.
But with a growing number of MAX's in service worldwide, I'm just not ready to bet my life that 100% of the pilots will correctly identify the situation and correctly implement the procedure before the plane becomes uncontrollable.