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Old 11th Apr 2001, 00:58
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Casper
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Australia may not make comment on the report officially. Only three states (manufacture - USA / operation - Singapore / location - Indonesia) may have official input to the formal report. Australian investigators were present at the invitation of the Indonesian authority.

The NTSB comments on the official report probably created a precedent in that the comments disagreed with the official findings. These official findings are a disgrace to both Indonesia and Singapore, both states purporting to be signatories to ICAO. What a joke!

All investigators in the case (Singapore and Indonesia included) PRIVATELY agree that the crash was caused by human intervention. Apart from all the human factor aspects which are valid DESPITE the rubbish presented by the Singapore police report, there is simply NO OTHER POSSIBLE cause.

As mentioned in previous posts, the trajectory has been flown in simulators. It takes a lot of down trim on the stabiliser and a lot of thrust to achieve the plotted course and descent.

KEEP IT SIMPLE.
Manually set stab trim + manually set thrust = human input.

Claims about yaw damper problems etc are simply not valid in this case. All flight control components of the aircraft in MI 185 was recovered and ALL were okay.