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Originally Posted by FLAME ENVY
Runaway trim is runaway trim, you deal with it the same way. If your aircraft is pitching up or down without pilot input, there is likely a trim issue, address it as such and figure out the cause after the fact once the aircraft is under control. Boeing designed the MCAS system to be a 'blind' safety mechanism to prevent an imminent aerodynamic stall, hence the reason most knew little about it. It is supposed to be the proverbial 'safety blanket' to prevent the wings from stalling at high angles of attack. Unfortunately, Boeing did not seemingly design the system as good as it should have been with more redundancies and comparative data.
There is no replacement for experience and proper training in the aviation world, be it pilot/AME or ATC. Based on what has already been reported, the Lion Air crash appears to have been preventable regardless of the faults that correlate back to the bad AoA data and MCAS system (unless something else comes to light).
Acey made some great comments in a previous post regarding pilot skill/knowledge - notably mentioning the Asiana crash in San Francisco which really highlighted the human factor in aircraft accidents.
Regardless of the final findings from both MAX crashes, pilot experience/training are most surely to be mentioned alongside the other factual information found.
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Thanks, that's helpful - I don't know anything about flying so I'm just going by what I read. If it's as simple as aircraft pitching without pilot input --> possible trim issue --> execute runaway trim procedure, then it does seem like a procedural breakdown is the biggest culprit - my question was moreso if it was possible that the pilots didn't recognize this as being a trim issue at all, not if they could identify the cause.