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0 pointslinuxftw7y ago0 comments

I don't think they had the altitude to recover, if it was even a recoverable MCAS issue to begin with.

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cjbprime7y ago· 2 in thread

I think they did -- it looks like it took six minutes from the first distress call claiming a control issue (at 7000ft) to impact, and they stayed at around 7000ft for much of those six minutes.

linuxftwOP7y ago

You're confused as the information is not widely available. That's 7k ft about sea level.

From [1]:

> The aircraft climbed very slowly and only to about 1,000ft above ground before crashing.

https://leehamnews.com/2019/03/15/bjorns-corner-the-ethiopia...

cjbprime7y ago

Thanks, I see. Still, around six minutes seems a decent amount of time to fix a flight control problem once you know about it?

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