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Old 04-28-2013 | 07:38 PM
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Originally Posted by DMC12
Not to mention the Colorado Springs accident that was pilot induced.
Weird, that's not what the NTSB concluded. I guess we can all agree you are full of it??
The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the United Airlines flight 585 accident was a loss of control of the airplane resulting from the movement of the rudder surface to its blowdown limit. The rudder surface most likely deflected in a direction opposite to that commanded by the pilots as a result of a jam of the main rudder power control unit servo valve secondary slide to the servo valve housing offset from its neutral position and overtravel of the primary slide.
http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/summary/AAR0101.html


Originally Posted by DMC12
How about Sioux City???? Forgot that one?? Or the blow out cabin on the 747 near Hawaii???
And in both of the accidents you mention the UAL pilots were heralded for their airmanship.