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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Would that, by chance, be related to this snippet from the Ars Technica article?
Is there a chance that they were trying what you suggest, but that the software kept overriding back into a 'crash me' state, for which they did not know how to disable?
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Possibly. Very doubtful however based on previous crews on the same hull being able to disable MCAS by employing the STAB cut-off switches during previous flights. The doomed crew apparently did not touch the cut-off switches. The pilots just used the electric trim toggle on the yoke which temporarily disables MCAS, the cut-off switches kills it.
Here is a good AOPA article on the subject. The STAB cut-off switches which are pictured need to be switched off in a runaway trim situation. As I stated earlier, runaway trim is runaway trim regardless of the cause. Follow the memory procedure for runaway trim which includes enabling the cut-off switches.
https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/...-737-max-fleet