COMPANY SAYS STABILIZER FLUTTER LED TO BREAKUP OF PEREGRINE BD-10

Peregrine Flight International said the inflight breakup of a Peregrine (BD-10) that resulted in the death of the company's president and chief executive during a test flight last month "was due to flutter of the left horizontal stabilizer." The accident, which killed Michael D. Van Wagenen...

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