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My recollection is it applied flight control input when the pilots did not expect it. The system was documented but not present on other 737 models.

Definitely not trying to be Boeing friendly fwiw.



Yeah, that matches my understanding. It was the

> a flight control feature the pilots didn't know about

phrasing that made me take issue. To me, it implies that if just the pilots had known about MCAS in detail, the crashes wouldn't have happened, implicitly placing the blame on them. While the reason for both the faulty system and the lack of knowledge can be attributed to Boeing trying to save money, which I think is a more fair target for blame.




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