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Regulators knew before crashes that 737 MAX trim control was confusing in some conditions
U.S. and European regulators knew at least two years before a Lion Air crash that the usual method for controlling the Boeing 737 MAX's nose angle might not work in conditions similar to those in two recent disasters, a document shows. The European Aviation and Space Agency (EASA) certified the plane as safe in part because it said additional procedures and training would "clearly explain" to pilots the "unusual" situations in which they would need to manipulate a rarely… (www.yahoo.com) More...
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Reading this as a non-pilot, this sounds like if the brake pedal on my car didn't have full authority to stop my car, and as I approached a red light I would, in a 1-in-a-1000 circumstance, need to reach over and pull the emergency brake handle with only a split-second to make that judgement. Oh, yeah, and nobody told me that when I bought the car.
Yeah, that's definitely going to be a useful method for pilots.
