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According to the official accident report, the first officer repeatedly moved the rudder from fully left to fully right. This caused increasing sideslip angles. The resulting hazardous sideslip angle led to extremely high aerodynamic loads that separated the vertical stabilizer.
1 lis 2002 · On Flight 587, a series of sharp rudder movements stressed the plane’s vertical tail fin beyond its design limits and caused it to fail. The back-and-forth actions occurred in just 7.5 seconds.
He warned Molin repeatedly about this and told him not to gun the rudder so aggressively. Evidently Molin didn’t take his advice. There is “flying” in a simulator and actually flying. Molin clearly didn’t know the difference.
26 paź 2004 · "Little wake turbulence, huh?'' said the American Airlines captain, Edward A. States, to his first officer, Sten Molin, who was actually flying the plane.
12 lis 2016 · American Airlines Flight 587 consisted of two flight crew members Captain Ed States, 42 and First Officer Sten Molin, 34. The First Officer was the pilot flying. Flight 587 was scheduled to leave John F Kennedy at 08:00 for a flight to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
29 sty 2022 · Two and a half minutes after the departure of the 747, Kennedy tower cleared flight 587 for takeoff. In the cockpit, First Officer Molin, who was flying the plane, asked Captain States,...
12 lis 2021 · The officials’ verdict was that the aircraft’s first officer, Sten Molin, 34, who had been flying the Airbus A300B4-605R at the time, had overused the rudder controls in response to wake...
