On October 9th of this year a Northwest Boeing 747-400 suffered a hard over on the lower rudder. The cojoe ran through all of the checklists to determine how to counter the problem but to no avail. The flight diverted to Anchorage and the pilots used asymmetric thrust to maintain direction of flight during the landing and approach.
It was mentioned above that this sort of problem is not presented in the simulator. Maybe it should be covered in the syllabus.
