Originally Posted by
MarkerInbound
...on a -9/80 series how would they know? You can move the yoke all you want but you're just checking the control tabs, not the elevators. Even the NTSB said as much - "Contributing to the accident were (2) the lack of a means to enable the flight crew to detect a jammed elevator during preflight checks for the Boeing MD-83 airplane."
MI,
Yep...they shoulda thought of that decades ago. A bit late now.