Stephen Brashear/Getty Images A Boeing 737 MAX 8 airplane is pictured outside the company's factory on March 22, 2019, in Renton, Washington. Stephen Brashear/Getty Images A Boeing 737 MAX 8 airplane is pictured outside the company's factory on March 22, 2019, in Renton, Washington. In addition to manual control, it can be moved by the autopilot and a new feature in the 737 Max that has come under scrutiny from crash investigators, the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, known MCAS. Since the second 737 Max crash, in March in Ethiopia, Boeing has defended the runaway stabilizer trim procedure as sufficient. Pilots and experts frequently refer to the runaway stabilizer trim checklist as a "memory item," an emergency procedure that pilots train on repetitively and can perform almost instinctively.

Source: Ethiopian News May 11, 2019 02:37 UTC