From: Jeff Shultz 

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:45:33 -0500, Geo wrote:

> "Frank Haber"  wrote in message
> news:41f119dc$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> restricting their options in crisis situations, instead imposing
> preprogrammed
>> sets of actions.  Yet this is directly antithetical to an A300's letting
> that
>> copilot slam his rudder back and forth in a resonant fashion.
>
> you don't really believe that plane just broke up mid air like that do
> you?
>
> Geo.

Yep. Because similar things have happened before (and will probably happen again).

Look at the early days of the DC-10, the Lockheed Electra, the Comet....

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