RUDDER PROBLEMS STILL DOG 737 JETS TROUBLE CONTINUES DESPITE FIXES ORDERED IN WAKE OF SPRINGS CRASH.(Local)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | March 8, 1999 | Copyright

Byline: Dick Foster News Southern Bureau

The nation's most popular airliner - the Boeing 737 - is having serious new problems after fixes intended to solve rudder malfunctions suspected of causing two fatal crashes.

Two new incidents occurred in late February, within weeks of the eighth anniversary of the United Airlines Flight 585 crash in Colorado Springs that killed all 25 people aboard:

* A Metrojet Boeing 737 was forced to make an emergency landing Feb. 23 in Baltimore after pilots suddenly lost control of the aircraft on a flight from ...

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