Elev-trim
Excuse my ignorance because never flown the 900, many others yes, so why didn't the captain just wheel a bit of nose up trim when he found it nose heavy instead of panicking? Is there something on the 900 that I do not know about like elevators falling off after the pre flight check to cause his concern?
I remember in 1970 taking off from the short x runway at CIA in a VC10 when at rotate nothing happened, the captain yeld at me to help him pull it off. We cleared the trees between the end of the runway and the beach by inches. If we had stopped we would have been on the beach. It turned out that the tail plane position indicator had failed and we had the wrong setting. My point is that what mind set convinces a pilot that an aerolane suddenly becomes "unflyable" with no reason. My view is that Dassault should sue the pilot for damaging one of their beautiful aeroplanes