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After deadly 737 Max crashes, damning whistleblower report reveals sidelined engineers, scarcity of expertise, more

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Re: The article leaves out important details

> If they had used the trim switch on the yoke it would have overridden the computer.

I read in one of the analyses that MCAS automatically re-enabled 5 seconds after releasing the yoke trim switches. So the pilot thinks they've corrected and five seconds later the plane is trying to kill them again.

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