[RCSE] 737 Rudder Is Not The First

[Marc Gellart]

The 737's are not the first Boeing aircraft that the rudder caused a crash.  An American Airlines 707 flying out of one of the New York airports crashed because of a hard over of a rudder in the early 60's.  One of the issues cited in that incident was the fact that the 707 had already raised the flaps, and if you remeber, at that point the inboard set of ailerons were the only ones that operated in that configuration.  There was no way that the crew was even going to get close to stopping the roll with them.  A bit of history.   Marc Gellart