The investigation into the Lion Air crash does illustrate how an experience pilot can indeed save the aircraft from MCAS software misbehaving.


Nevertheless, it's unfair to the pilots that they have to deal with a software system they didn't know existed. Boeing should have been required to disclose the software, provide training materials to airlines, and make the safety feature of AOA-disagree part of the standard package for the 737-Max.

That's why I'd personally place the majority of the responsibility for the deaths on Boeing rather than the pilots. I'm sure we'll find that there were things the pilots could have done to avert disaster.

But it's not fair that they were put into that position by a badly designed aircraft.