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Old Mar 14, 2019, 3:12 pm
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Originally Posted by fanger
I thought no details of that CVR have been released. Is that untrue? Credible speculation?
The pilots were apparently sufficiently uninformed they tried to white knuckle / fight the controls all the way. The ops manual they had (Boeing supplemented it with a Bulletin 7 Nov, Lion Air crashed 29 Oct iirc), but the solution would likely have been to disengage the control switches shown below. (The AOA / MCAS problem manifests itself while pilots are in manual flight.) The other issue is that was the fourth time in a row the aircraft flew with documented but never resolved faults.
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