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There's an engaging account of this incident in an American Airlines training seminar that's now on Youtube - it's even more dramatic than your summary suggests
by meredydd 11y ago
There's an engaging account of this incident in an American Airlines training seminar that's now on Youtube - it's even more dramatic than your summary suggests:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfNBmZy1Yuc&feature=youtu.be&list=PLLw2WvQDgEmIOEHoVVKK8SGkXNkMkljYn&t=2006 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfNBmZy1Yuc&feature=youtu.be...
(Incidentally, this is the video series that includes the famous "Children of Magenta" lecture, which is a must-watch for anyone who designs or thinks about how to use a system with multiple levels of abstraction: https://youtu.be/pN41LvuSz10 https://youtu.be/pN41LvuSz10)
- WalterBright 11y agoI must have misremembered it, because I had thought it was ice jamming the actuators, not the stab trim. But thanks for the link! Edit: Vindicated! This link says it was the elevator! http://www.aahs-online.org/journals/journal_template.php?vol_no=v50n4 http://www.aahs-online.org/journals/journal_template.php?vol... And a somewhat different account of the same incident: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1978/10/08/the-saving-of-flight-1080/bc18f021-691d-4b19-8041-dc03a089bf6d/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1978/10/08/t...