Poll: Would you fly on a Boeing 737 MAX?

[denem]

3. Even with training, pilots had only 10 seconds to avoid an MCAS death spiral.

The Boeing 737 MAX Nightmare Keeps Getting Worse
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For example, it was obvious to me and other experienced reporters that the Lion Air pilots had been swiftly overcome by a problem that that they had not been trained to prepare for because it was related to a new control system, Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), that they—along with all other MAX flight crews—did not know even existed.

And yet Boeing insisted to us that the pilots could have overcome this fatal malfunction by treating it as a condition known as “runaway stabilizer”—one that was actually included in the flight manual as a legacy item—even though the actions triggered by the MCAS were far more extreme.

Now the House report confirms, shockingly, that Boeing knew all the time that the pilots had only 10 seconds to identify the problem and deal with it before being overpowered by the MCAS’s rogue actions.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-boeing-737-max-nightmare-keeps-getting-worse