re: 737max crashes in Ethiopia. Killing 157

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But here’s the other deal: once you start limiting the MCAS activation, now you risk increasing the probability of the original problem it was meant to solve (nose too high/stalling)

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Not really. They’ll fix it. The way I read it the MCAS tilted the horizontal stabilizer 2.5 deg nose down. Once the pilots recovered the MCAS rearmed itself but didn’t reset the stabilizers back to neutral. So each time the plane neared a critical AOA the stabilizers moved another 2.5 deg eventually creating an unrecoverable nose down attitude unless the system was completely shut off.