Flight 587 Report: Pilot at Fault; Design Contributed
A merican Airlines Flight 587 crashed into a Queens, New York, neighborhood because the first officer, responding to wake turbulence, used "unnecessary and excessive" rudder inputs that caused the vertical stabilizer and rudder to snap off, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) concluded...
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