Ailerons Eyed
The FAA, NTSB and Cirrus Design Corp. engineers believe a jammed aileron may have led to the March 23 crash of a prototype SR20 in which the company's chief test pilot was killed. Static testing on other Cirrus SR20 prototypes shows that the leading edge of the right aileron can jam against the wing...
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