[Fraxinus]

At that point they were in an overspeed condition. If they had been competent pilots they would have pulled back on the throttles and MCAS would have been deactivated automatically. They didn’t need to know that MCAS existed.

True, but they also had the stall warning blaring. I believe that most pilots would consider a stall to be a more immediate concern than over speed and the corrective actions are basically the exact opposite of an over speed.

[FtrPilot]

I believe that most pilots would consider a stall to be a more immediate concern than over speed and the corrective actions are basically the exact opposite of an over speed.

It is almost impossible for a stall and an over speed to occur simultaneously. In order for this to occur, the plane would have to pull more than 9 Gs.

Competent pilots would recognize they had an AOA malfunction.

[Moonman62]

True, but they also had the stall warning blaring. I believe that most pilots would consider a stall to be a more immediate concern than over speed and the corrective actions are basically the exact opposite of an over speed.

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The stick shaker was activated which was a stall warning.

But the pilots retracted the flaps, which shouldn’t be done when there is a stall warning.

Had they left the flaps where they were then MCAS would not have been activated.