Originally Posted by bubbers44
Then again did anybody check the rudder actuator clutch? If it happened once it could happen again. I wonder if it was the same airplane?
On the surface that might look like an excellent question. But, I think the report indicates that when this particular error manifested itself on the approach into Miami (I think) the airplane was apparently found to have had maintenance cross-connecting the autopilot servos (wasn’t it) and they said that it was extremely difficult to move the rudder pedals. The rudder pedals on AA587 were apparently quite easily moved … as the F/O move them from stop to stop some 5 times in 7 seconds. That doesn’t sound like “very difficult to move.”