AA587: It Should Not Have Been So Shocking
When the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 reminded the aviation community that rapid rudder reversals could rip the vertical stabilizer off an aircraft, the reaction of many airline pilots was shock. But the reaction of engineering test pilots amounted to: ``We knew that.'' The accident...
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