Originally Posted by
MatthewAMEL
You clearly didn't watch the entire thing.
All of your points were addressed several times in the documentary.
In fact the ALPA rep they were talking to said in reference to the '250 hour pilot' about the 2nd event, "The kid did it right", and showed him flipping the cutout switches. They make specific reference to the 2nd event that occurred after the revised procedure from Boeing was published. They crew followed that procedure and still lost control of the A/C.
Boeing screwed up. The Max as originally delivered had a fatal flaw. We do not fly the same Max today.
IMHO, the Max is/was a terrible idea that was the result of Boeing being out maneuvered by a rival. The 1960's 737 should have been retired with the NG.
What? You mean the moron from American? The kid didn't do it right. They did not properly execute the runaway trim checklist memory items. All they did was flip the switches, there is a lot more to the checklist than that. Also guess it slipped Capt America's mind that they turned the switches back on to try and engage the AP several times, or the fact he couldn't manually trim because they were 70 knots into the barber pole (420 Knots well beyond the design limit of the aircraft). Kid did it right my ass.