Originally Posted by
arbalist1
All of you saying the RTS sim was no sweat realize that you were being given the problem after Boeing modified both hardware and software of MCAS, right? The whole point of RTS training was to show how much better it is now. There were US airline 737 pilots given the actual scenario with the OG MCAS. I know one of them. He said it was pretty shocking how fast things got out of hand. The MAX is perfectly safe now, but it wasn't back then.
Meh. The night before the Lion Air crash, the airplane had the same problem. The two managed to stay alive, and the jumpseater pointed out at the trim wheel and recognized it as a runaway trim. Said crew flew entire way to Jakarta with CA side stick shaker going off. Said crew lived. They also wrote the problem up in a horrendous manner that never explained the true gravity of their situation. Next flight was the accident flight.