a300 rudder

[widgeon]

Not been around the forum for a while .
Any final news on what caused failure of the A300 rudder yet ?.


http://www.ntsb.gov/Pressrel/2003/030319.htm

not much new from official sources.

[Airbubba]

It looks like pilot inputs to the rudder may have caused structural failure.

However, as always, the conspiracy theorists have more creative explainations:

http://www.yowusa.com/Archive/December2001/587a/587a.htm

http://www.revlu.com/AA587.html

http://www.globalafrica.com/HumanSacrifice.htm etc...