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Old 13th Jun 2009, 16:07
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1
) I find that very hard to believe... low frequency flutter on powreed controls?

2) If true, then where are the ADs? A very serious problem indeed with immense ramifications, which surely couldn't be covered up - requiring fundamental control system redesign.

1) & 2) taken together make it sound more of a conspiracy theory - so solid evidence please
I'm sure that no offence was intended, Harry Mann. Nor was any percepted. But I'm not in the habit of telling lies, or even 'inaccuracies', on the Net or anywhere else. And I'm sure that you feel exactly the same.

The rudder controls on AA587 were conventionally-linked. No Airbus-style FBW..........

Please read this whole NTSB report through. And then get back to me, and we can have a fully-informed discussion.

NTSB Abstract AAR-04/04

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