Word: rudder
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...plane was built. New evidence, however, suggests a problem may also have been in how it was flown. According to a blunt 1997 letter obtained by TIME, safety officers from Boeing and Airbus, the plane's builders, had warned American that its pilot training relied too much on the rudder to recover in turbulent situations, which can "lead to structural loads that exceed the design strength of the [tail...
Approaching Pittsburgh, Pa., a Boeing 737 coming in from Chicago plummets to the ground as it prepares to land. A rudder malfunction, causing the plane to move in the opposite direction the pilots intended, is blamed. The crash killed all 132 passengers and crew...
REMEDY Boeing redesigned and is in the process of refitting the rudder-control systems on the 1,300 737s in its U.S. fleet...
...passengers and crew aboard the Airbus A300 were killed, along with five people on the ground. Investigators examining the flight recorders believe the pilot lost control after the jet twice hit turbulence from another aircraft. Inquiries are focusing on what made the plane?s tail fin and rudder apparently snap...
...Tobago. I do not romanticize the country, but neither do I denigrate it. Naipaul's attitude shows how well the colonial masters succeeded in their job of brainwashing. I am grateful that for every Naipaul, there is a Trinidadian writer like Earl Lovelace and a calypso musician like David Rudder. SUZETTE DE COTEAU Reading, England