It is odd how so many people live in denial of reality.
One poster refuses to believe that a vertical stabilizer can be broken off an airplane despite engineering evidence that this is exactly what can happen and why we now have warning not to make certain inputs on certain aircraft.
Others refuse to believe that a pilot made repetitive inputs on his rudder pedals despite direct evidence of it having been done as recorded on an FDR. Excuses such as yaw damper are thrown about despite that being impossible.
All of which reminds me of the Egyptair investigation and more recently the Ethiopian crash in Beirut. Fortunately for us in the west, we have a much smaller percentage of believers in theories that fly in the face of the obvious.
There may be other factors to consider such as how light a force is required on the pedals to get full deflection but that doesn't change the other evidence.
Last edited by JammedStab; 2nd Oct 2013 at 23:42.