Originally Posted by
sgrd0q
By the way, when they cut off the stab trim motors, they were so out of trim that it is not a given, based on what we know, that the plane was flyable, no matter the speed. You can hold the pressure for so long until your muscles give out.
But the speed does matter. It’s the main reason the aircraft became uncontrollable. Had they stayed in the flight envelope, any trim setting, even an extreme one would have still been flyable. It wasn’t until that trim setting was combined with a speed well beyond limits that the aircraft was un-flyable. So saying “no matter the speed” as if the trim position alone doomed the aircraft makes absolutely no sense.