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Old 15th Mar 2019, 20:10
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I am still thinking about the missing bolt on the horizontal stab actuator theory. If this happened the stab would most likely have moved beyond the design limits and could possibly have caused contact with the elevator control cables resulting in an overload of one of the many pulley quadrants. This would cause the cables to go slack and the elevators to assume and retain any arbitrary position. If there is a control column position channel on the FDR and it does not agree with the elevator position, a probable cause could be stab movement beyond design limits. Once the horizontal stab stalled out due to pitch momentum, the excessive nose down AOA could have a wing area effect on the stab (Due to center of lift and hinge location) to blow it into a nose up position resulting in the final pull up.
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