westhawk,
My apologies to all concerned in the TWA 841 727 incident, I have had access only to the NTSB report, and was unaware that there was any on-going resistance to, or disagreement with, the NTSB findings of the "Probable Cause".
In line with the thread topic, I believe it to be indisputable that the incident was initiated by the extension of Flaps / Slats at high Mach Numbers (Slats 2,3,6, and 7 and Flaps 2°), which then became far more serious when, upon Flap / Slat retraction, No. 7 Slat failed to retract.
Regards,
Old Smokey