Ralph Nesbitt wrote:

The issue with the incident in question was the complete vertical stabilizer
breaking off, not just the rudder fin.

The vert stab broke off on account of the forces created on it by the
multiple
reversals of rudder.

The link posted by Rich Ahrens
http://www.ntsb.gov/events/2001/AA58...its/239998.pdf

states unequivocally that structural failure can result from such
action. See
somewhere like page 3 of the text.


Graham


As has been said many times before - why was this not more widely
realised ? I
note that the message in the link above was sent to *management*. Nuff
said ?