Larry Dighera wrote:
On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 21:23:27 GMT, A Guy Called Tyketto
wrote in
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WILLARD NICKISCH, PILOT: I've got an autopilot that won.t release and
it wants to pull me down into a dive.

Ummm... If I were Willard, I'd have pulled the autopilot circuit
breaker. Strange no one thought of that.

I got the impression from this statement in his "thank you" letter that he
did pull the circuit breakers:

"Being I had disconnected the circuit breakers thinking it was an autopilot
problem I did not have a working gyro compass."

A Google search turns up a CNN interview where he indicates or suggests the
problem turned out to be a stuck elevator trim.