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Moscow crash: stabiliser suspected

Moscow, Russia - One of the two flight attendants survived was virtually unscathed

An inquiry into the Russian jet crash that killed 14 crew members is focusing on a possible malfunction of its horizontal stabiliser. The device spontaneously moved two seconds after the Ilyushin II-86 took off on Sunday. Six seconds after the shift, the plane's commander tried to compensate by thrusting the control stick forward as far as possible. The pilots did not have time to tell controllers...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 31525
Rome, Italy, 07/30/2002 11:36
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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