Air France crash

[Jerome R. Long]

An AA A300 lost its rudder and crashed in Queens in October 2001.
This was due to over correction for wake turbulence from a JAL 747.
Is it not plausible that a similar rudder failure was caused from coping with
the severe storm the A330 was flying through?

[James Robinson]

jrlong@vt.edu (Jerome R. Long) wrote:

> An AA A300 lost its rudder and crashed in Queens in October 2001.
> This was due to over correction for wake turbulence from a JAL 747.
> Is it not plausible that a similar rudder failure was caused from
> coping with the severe storm the A330 was flying through?

Anything's possible, but that hypothesis is highly unlikely. These were
very experienced pilots, and rudder simply isn't used in high speed cruise.
The AA incident was at a much lower speed and altitude.