Excellent description. Thanks for writing that.
Question...if they went through 20 on/off cycles of the the hor stab trim actuation by MCAS, why wouldn’t they have turned off the Stab Cutoff switches? They must have been exerting tremendous physical effort to pull back on the yoke as you say, but wouldn’t a serious pitch control problem like this have led them to cut off / disengage the hor stab drives?
“Question...if they went through 20 on/off cycles of the the hor stab trim actuation by MCAS, why wouldn’t they have turned off the Stab Cutoff switches? They must have been exerting tremendous physical effort to pull back on the yoke as you say, but wouldn’t a serious pitch control problem like this have led them to cut off / disengage the hor stab drives?
It was panic time, confusion and distress ruled the day. They would not be “led” to do anything to save their or the passengers lives. I wonder when they actually gave up?