Originally Posted by
Diff Tail Shim
If he had been professional accident would never happened. He wasn't. I get my coat.
hmmm; Jimmy Leeward was pretty experienced on the aircraft and RARA, he had flown over many years in the 80s and 90s, and then taken time off for10 years. The elevator tab problem had occurred before, but wasn't fatal to the other aircraft. The NTSB did consider the wear of the system made it susceptible to flutter. So, yes, that was a bad call. However, I've flown Boeing jet airliners that had enough flex in the ailerons to have LCO in level flight and within the envelope of the aircraft, so am not sure that it is justified to have called Jimmy unprofessional, he would have been well advised to have little or no slack in the flight control systems however.