All pilots are expected to know how to take control of an aircraft when the plane’s tail begins moving in an uncontrolled way because of a malfunction, nudging the aircraft toward the ground."
Hmmmm, probably shouldn’t have constantly eroded required training standards over the last few decades then.
There is a real problem when non-pilots are rewarded for decreasing the training budgets, they don’t understand how close to the bone they can cut until they’ve hit it.