Originally Posted by
GPullR
You either didn't read the accounts of the 2 crashes or have no idea what you are talking about. One incident flew for 6 minutes while the captain retrimmed 33 times. Then gave the airplane to a 250hr pilot and never said he retrimmed once. The second one was left at takeoff power until it hit the ground more then 2 minutes later. Every us pilot on the 737 was trained on trim runaway. Turn 2 switches off if that big huge wheel that hits you in the knee all the time is moving uncommanded.
Yeah, I'd love to see you with no prior knowledge diagnose what was going on as your FO is flying shortly after take off, your airspeed indications are totally whack, clacker blaring, all kinds of noises and distractions going off. Have you tried to manually trim a 737 once it's out of trim, you really have to push the nose down to unload the tail..which would be extremely difficult for anyone to do so low to the ground and with such little time to figure out what was happening. The first incident okay, I think most of us wouldn't have crashed that one.