Minutes after take-off, the pilots of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX were caught ...
PARIS/SEATTLE/SINGAPORE - Minutes after take-off, the pilots of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX were caught in a bad situation.
Moments later, the Boeing Co jet hit the ground, killing all 157 people onboard after six minutes of flight. “Power being left in take-off power while leveling off at that speed is not a normal procedure,” said one U.S. pilot, who declined to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the media. “I can’t imagine a scenario where you’d need to do that.”
As with the Lion Air crash in Indonesia, the damaged ‘angle of attack’ sensor, which tells pilots what angle the aircraft has relative to its forward movement, may have set off a volatile chain of events. When MCAS triggered again, the jetliner’s trim was set to push the nose down at almost the maximum level, while the control yoke noisily vibrated with another stall warning called a “stick shaker.”
Some experienced pilots said there were an array of stressful factors sapping the pilots’ attention, which Muilenburg addressed on Thursday.
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