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Originally Posted by Red
Now that the initial report is out. Should we still be very cautious and sceptical when reading news or should we apply that when we are reading your opinions on this subject?  |
I’m happy to provide some thoughts and insight here, but you seem to be calling me out for no good reason. Nothing I said was incorrect, or made any hyperbolic assumptions. And nothing in the reports disagrees with what I said, even though you seem to think so.
So read things critically, and realize that you need to be skeptical of the accuracy of media reports of these types of technical issues.
The odds of turning off the stab trim cutout switches and having MCAS continue to trim nose down are not impossible, but extremely low. And there is nothing in what I have read that indicates that is what happened.
I am not saying what did or didn’t happen, because I don’t know. But I am advising on the realistic probabilities of some of these poorly written articles.
It appears the crew did the correct thing by turning off the stab trim cutout switches, but for some reason felt they needed to turn them back on. Why was that? I really don’t know, and I look forward to finding out. There are some legit theories written above by bigtime and fuzz, but no one really knows yet.