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Old 28th Dec 2006, 23:47
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Jurassic Jet
 
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No conspiracy thoughts here either.

In my opinion, it's more like the NTSB decided to ignore Ockham’s Razor.

  • 587 crashed because the rudder failed causing the vertical fin to fail which caused the airplane to crash.
  • 587 crashed because the rudder failed causing the vertical fin to fail because the first officer made excessive and abrupt rudder inputs, which caused the airplane to crash.
The finding of pilot error is just the simplest, cheapest and most expedient way to end the investigation. That it also resolved the political and money problems was just icing on the cake.

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