Federal Aviation Administration officials are downplaying the importance of a broken warning light on the 737 MAX
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Elwell said he thought the pilots had failed to pick up quickly enough on what he called “classic” signs of “stabilizer trim runaway” and had failed to properly follow procedures to counteract it – the Lion Air pilots never turned off the motor that was moving the stabilizer, the small wings sticking out of the tail of the plane, causing the plane to pitch downward into a fatal dive, and the Ethiopian pilots turned the motor back on after failing to adjust the stabilizer manually using a...
“If a manufacturer is going to sell airplanes around the globe, it’s important that pilots know how to operate them,” National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt said. “The airplane has to be trained to the lowest common denominator.”
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