Originally Posted by
vilas
Don't do in an Airbus you may lose your vertical stabilizer.
What caused the loss of AA587's vertical stabilizer was not a full scale rudder deflection, but an abrupt
reversal of the rudder from near full scale one direction, changing rapidly to near full scale deflection the opposite direction. That is completely different scenario whcih imposes higher loads than a single full scale deflection, and is beyond the transport category certification standards. The vertical stabilizer in the A300, like all transport category aircraft, was designed to withstand the loads imposed by a *single* full scale rudder deflection, and there is no evidence whcih suggests that would have caused failure of the vertical stabilizer.