Qantas emergency landing

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Finn47

Better explanation under "reason" here, in the EASA version of the same AD:

http://www.slv.dk/Dokumenter/dscgi/d...-2007-0009.pdf

....In both cases, this situation if not detected could lead to the loss of an
elevator on takeoff and, in the extreme case, reduce the controllability
of the aircraft which is potentially critical.
The aim

Thanks very much for the link above.

My initial read suggest to me that this failure mode mentioned in the AD only affects a failure to respond to a commanded input rather than forces an unwanted input.

still puzzled