Originally Posted by
porterhouse
Yes, it is wrong. But I am afraid you will believe whatever you want to believe. 737 is no different than 757 or any other Boeing.
Sorry to say so, but your say-so is not what I meant by "authoritative source". It would require some other document contradicting the 737 FCOM and mine and hec7or's reading of it. For example some documentation explaining that the torque tube between the two elevator surfaces is frangible and supposed to be broken by the override mechanism for dealing with a jammed control column.
The 757's flight controls are in fact quite different from the 737's, e. g.
Originally Posted by Boeing 757 OM
[...] there is no manual reversion.
which already makes it fundamentally different.
It also has three hydraulic systems instead of two.
EDIT: Thanks, Airbubba, Egypt Air 990 was a 767, but everything I said also applies to the 767, including the quote from the FCOM.
Bernd