Brian - Maybe you should read you own report. Simply put it's not like they were flying along and all of a sudden the tail fell off. They were having trim and flight control problems for an hour, hence the call to dispatch.
Apologize all you want for the pilots...but it was a top down culture at Alaska that caused this issue...from mechanics that didn't do inspections to pilots who couldn't make a decision and would fly into a mountain if dispatch told them to.