While you are all discussing Theory of Flight (It must be true "Get 3 Pilots together and you'll get 4 opinions") no one has commented on TripleIRS ' question
"Whilst I don't doubt that the crew did a good job, I was wondering whether their decision to continue all the way to MAN was a sound one. With a control difficulty such as that, I would have thought that Land ASAP would have been the better decision. They seemed to have regained sufficient control whilst still over N. Ireland. Comments??"
And as for Growlers statement that they had identified the problem etc - well the Alaska Air lads had the problem identified but they still ended up dead. As far as I remember they pulled (and reset) the appropriate CB. With some prodding, unfortunately, from their Maintenance.
No point in being a Dead superhero!
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The Stamp is mightier than the Toolbox!!