Originally Posted by reevesofskyking

there was one event over the summer, I just flew with that CA

He said that it took both of them to rotate the airplane and bring it back and flare it enough so it did land nose wheel first.

mx looked at it and found that the torque tubes to the spring tabs broken and had punctured the skin of the evlevator.
also the hinges were all wallowed out and broken as well.

and then the service bulliten we just got last week said that another one of our birds had jammed elevator and aborted the takeoff.

now we have to right the airplane up fo mx if the airplane has been exposed to 50 kt wind gust. and dispatch will monitor the weather over night to make sure it does not get any large wind gust.

The crew procedure is to visually check the elevator on the preflight through its full range of motion to look for broken parts or tearing.

Reeves