In article et,
"carl mciver" wrote:

To lose an elevator or two can be compensated for, usually, but the
elevators on the horizontal stabilizer, if so equipped, or careful use of
engine power. Losing the horizontal stabilizer is usually pretty hard to
deal with; some of you remember a jackscrew problem on an MD-80 not so long
ago.


In that jackscrew case, the stabilizer was too far off for level flight.
Could the pilot have flipped the plane upside down intermittently to
compensate? Would be rough but a nose first crash is worse.

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