Originally Posted by
exwannabe
The worst was the decision to downplay the existence of the system. Had pilots been trained to recognize the failure they would not have spent precious minutes making useless trim adjustments that the MCAS would revers shortly afterwards. Cuting the electiic trim control completley and mechanically wheeling it in would presumably have worked in both cases.
So Boeing made a human decision to conceal that the MAX was more difficult to handle, and that decision cost lives.
Which the runaway pitch trim procedure addresses, MCAS or not. As the actual pilots upthread said, they're more informed about MCAS now, but it's irrelevant to their reaction, they're still going to do the runway pitch trim procedure.
We don't know what cost lives yet, since the accident reports aren't out yet.