Will;
Yes, I agree with your comment, (as stated in the earlier post) - trim would have an enormous and initialy insidious effect if left uncontained/uncorrected. The QANTAS accident occurred through elevator deflection, however. Caught quickly, it is controllable through pilot input. I think what takata stated regarding giving credit to the engineers and pilots is the correct view and coincides with my own experience in general - it is an easily controlled set of circumstances if caught quickly - and it's what pilots do - just like the QANTAS guys did. It's just that I don't think that's what occurred here.