[SkyPilot]

The captain fought to climb, but the computer, still incorrectly sensing a stall, continued to push the nose down using the plane’s trim system. Normally, trim adjusts an aircraft’s control surfaces to ensure it flies straight and level

Maybe I’m missing something. Were they trying to fly via autopilot or hand flying the aircraft? I flew 4 engine transports for awhile. If we had runaway pitch trim, we disconnected the autopilot, and disconnected both the electric and electro-hydraulic trim inputs. Viola. And you fly the aircraft and don’t crash. There must be more to this. I just don’t get it.

[csvset]

I wonder if the pilot had enough practice disconnecting the trim inputs ? Some sort of drill , either real world or simulator ?

[Pelham]

from what I’ve read that MCAS software only ran when the plane was in manual mode. Ironically autopilot would have disconnected it.