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A day earlier on Oct. 28, the same plane had experienced similar problems to those seen on the flight that crashed, but managed to resolve them and proceed with the flight safely. Bloomberg reported that’s because a third off-duty pilot who was in the cockpit took the steps needed to stop the plane from engaging in repeated nose-down maneuvers—known in aviation as “runaway trim.” The third pilot’s presence wasn’t noted in Indonesia’s preliminary report on the crash of flight JT610, which attributed the corrective action to the commanding pilot on the Oct. 28 flight.

https://qz.com/1576597/off-duty-pilo...al-flight/amp/

The so-called dead-head pilot on the flight from Bali to Jakarta told the crew to cut power to the motor in the trim system that was driving the nose down, according to the people familiar, part of a checklist that all pilots are required to memorize.
By contrast, the crew on the flight that crashed the next day didn’t know how to respond to the malfunction, said one of the people familiar with the plane’s cockpit voice recorder recovered as part of the investigation. They can be heard checking their quick reference handbook, a summary of how to handle unusual or emergency situations, in the minutes before they crashed, Reuters reported, citing people it didn’t name.

https://qz.com/1576597/off-duty-pilo...al-flight/amp/


A week after the first crash the U.S. FAA sent out a safety alert directing pilots attention to the STAB TRIM thingy ( atleast thats what I think its doing)

https://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_G..._Emergency.pdf


Using the K.I.S.S. method I will say that as aircraft become more high tech the information and knowledge required to pilot such craft increases dramatically. You had better be prepared to respond to emergency better than what the pilots of the first and second crash did. Taking a nose dive at high speed low level is not the time to start thumbing through the big book of learning how to fly. Pilots need to train more in simulators I guess, otherwise people may die. Unfortunately MCAS worked as it was designed too and it worked flawlessly. It appears to me that flipping just one cutoff switch would have removed MCAS from the equation and put the pilot in charge of the plane. I could be wrong but as I said if the history of airplane crashes is any judge it would lean towards the direction it normally takes, lack of training, qualification process and communication of pertinent advisories and emergency procedure in other words pilot error.