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Old 31st May 2002 | 08:26
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what_the_hell_was_that?
 
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Woodman, no similarity to the Transavia accident whatsoever.

It was caused by the crew not disconnecting the autopilot until the last minute on a windy approach. As the a/c had already gone into Autoland mode it had applied elevator trim (as it is meant to do) when the crew disconnected there was a bit of a surprise nose up pitch and the resulting effort to get the nose on the ground broke it.
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