European Aviation and Space Agency certified the plane as safe in part because it said additional procedures and training would explain 'unusual’ situations to pilots in which they would need to manipulate a manual wheel to control the plane’s angle
Ethiopian Federal policemen stand at the scene of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302 plane crash, near the town of Bishoftu, southeast of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on March 11, 2019.U.S. and European regulators knew at least two years before a Lion Air crash that the usual method for controlling the Boeing 737 MAX’s nose angle might not work in conditions similar to those in two recent disasters, a document shows.
EASA and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration ultimately determined that set-up was safe enough for the plane to be certified, with the European agency citing training plans and the relative rarity of conditions requiring the trim wheel. Investigators have determined that the anti-stall system had also been automatically activated before an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max jet plunged into the ground, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
The trim system adjusts the angle of the nose. If the nose is too far up, the jet risks entering a stall.Additional procedures and training needed to “clearly explain” when the manual wheel might be needed, according to the document. The EASA spokesman said that was a reference to the Boeing flight crew operations manual.
“It would be very unusual to use the trim wheel in flight. I have only used manual trim once in the simulator,” said a 737 pilot. “It is not physically easy to make large trim changes to correct, say, an MCAS input. You – or more than likely the other pilot – have to flip out a little handle and wind, much like a boat winch.”
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