[6317alan]

Old Acro, has the Partenavia crash details all wrong, he is just following the then Departments coverup of the Design failure of the Trim System FAR 23 requirements on trim runaway pilot strength requirements, and then completely ignored thei Departments own requirements to flight test the aeroplane type before certification in Australia If the Department had followed their own requirements the accident would not have happened! They still tried to “Blame the Pilot” and probably would have gotten away with it had we died! The pilot is aderment he did not operate the trim switch and the Coroner believed him and so do I. The only test flight that actually tested the trim system properly was not carried out until Feb 1989, 11 years later on when another PN68 with the “modified Correct” trim installed had a trim runaway at Moorabbin! It only took 15 years of legal bullshit before they settled out of court.