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Old 11th Mar 2019, 07:18
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FlexibleResponse
 
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The jackscrew is attached to the stabilizer to change the datum trim point of the stabilizer.

In the wreckage photos, the jackscrew is no longer attached.

The question that will need to be answered is whether this failure of attachment happened pre or post-impact.

That is, did impact forces sever the attachment, or did the attachment structurally fail prior to impact and let the stabilizer float aerodynamically free?
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