US FAA orders MD-80 manual revision to include jammed-elevator check

MD-87 crash Houston, NTSB 102121

Source: NTSB

US regulators have ordered a change to Boeing MD-80 flight manuals to include a check that elevators are not jammed in the trailing-edge down position.

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