Originally Posted by tomgoodman

It was actually in 1977, an L-1011 which had the left stabilizer jam full nose-up. Capt. Jack McMahan had to use differential thrust (#1 & #3 at idle and #2 firewalled) to get the pitch back down. The incident is mentioned in this NASA study:

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/p...ain_H-2048.pdf