To: TigerLikesRooster; Aeronaut
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.... The Clinton-urged chinese built tail-plane trim-jack stripped and failed and caused the loss of an Alaska MD-80 off the California coast.
5 posted on
06/19/2005 7:37:39 AM PDT by
Brian Allen
(I fly and need therefore envy no Earth Person! -- Per Ardua ad Astra!)
To: Brian Allen
Do you have some links/further information on that accident? Thanks
6 posted on
06/19/2005 7:40:58 AM PDT by
Captain Rhino
("If you will just abandon logic, these things will make a lot more sense to you!")
To: Brian Allen
The Clinton-urged chinese built tail-plane trim-jack stripped and failed
What in the world does that mean? The airplane in that crash entered service with Alaska in May 1992, before Clinton was elected, and the basic aircraft design (of which the jackscrew was a part) dates from the early 1960's, before Nixon even opened China.
10 posted on
06/19/2005 8:08:48 AM PDT by
Turbopilot
(Viva la Reagan Revolucion!)
To: Brian Allen
The Clinton-urged chinese built tail-plane The trim screw had been allowed to go dry. The failure had nothing to do with Clintons, Chinese, or Bush.
13 posted on
06/19/2005 8:31:45 AM PDT by
RightWhale
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