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		heisenbit on Sept 27, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Plane Tests Must Use Average Pilots, NTSB Says Aft... Nope, the excessive authority given to MCAS in combination with the hard to rewind trim (particularly at high speeds) were a mousetrap to be sprung. There are many ways to trigger this mousetrap. This is not a chain, this is a cluster with many chains hanging from it.

MaupitiBlue on Sept 27, 2019 [–]

Correct. Many factors contributed, but there was one prevailing factor - the defective design of MCAS.

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