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Old 27th Mar 2016, 01:41
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NYT Article

This is a quote from the NYT article.

"The television channel cited experts who suggested that by turning off the autopilot, the pilots were trying to pull the plane back to a horizontal position. But at that moment, a stabilizing fin at the jet’s tail was switched on.
With the fin activated, “the elevator is no longer working and the plane practically does not react to the pilot’s control panel,” the report said. The channel suggested that the pilot could have accidentally hit the button that activated the fin because of his reported “chronic fatigue.”"

Can anyone translate this English into English?

What could they be talking about..."a stabilizing fin at the jet’s tail"?

Edit: maybe the HS?
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