Let's not confuse things. Not a control rod but a suspension bar.
Correct.
donut king If you don't know the difference perhaps you should keep your speculations to yourself.
Being an advisor and making such biased and unverified statements doesn't bode well.
Oil company aviation advisors accept (or sometimes recommend) the aircraft their employer has contracted and the operators who fly them, so the insecure ones feel obliged to lash out at operator or OEM after an accident as a means of self-preservation (even when the oil price is $100 plus).
But then again this thread is populated by a lot of people who have made more comment on this topic than any other, ever, so he is unlikely to be who he claims.