Originally posted by Gabriel
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How often do NG pilots get a runaway trim encounter that requires them to cut off the stab trim to regain control? I'm guessing these pilots had never encountered that. I'm also guessing they had never encountered training for that.
...and when the nose did go down and pulling up didn't fix it they thought that they were still in a stall and decided to not to make more nose-up trim inputs (but then why they kept pulling up as hard as they could?)
The key to avoiding these kinds of accidents is to avoid putting pilots in these kinds of situations. Nothing else is going to reliably work.
Solid training on runaway trim procedure would have avoided this situation.
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