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One minute before impact, the crew of flight 427 is alerted to another airplane that will be passing below them. >> they're looking for the airplane. first officer acquires it visually and tells the captain, yes, i see the jet stream. and then they encounter the wake turbulence of a delta airlines 727 and not an uncommon event at all. the airplane rocks around and moves. and from that moment of encountering the wake, something happened. they couldn't stop the roll in the airplane. and this was very difficult to listen to as a pilot because i could hear them struggling for control of the airpla...

Driving them back. it keeps pushing back at them, it doesn't go forward. we've never had this report from a crew of a pedal back forcing against them. now we're into a different scenario. >> fortunately they were at a higher air speed than the 427 which gave them more control. they were able to successfully land the plane. >> after hearing the pilot's experience with the rudder pedals, investigators suspect a jam might be the problem in the airplane's rudder system. >> the pilots control the rudder on the 737 with pedals. those pedals are connected via cables to the muscle, if you will, that p...

U.s. air flight 427 smashes down outside of pittsburgh. it is the second boeing 737 in three years to suddenly roll for unknown reasons and then crash killing everyone on board. it's a mystery threatening to ground the most widely used jet in the world. investigators suspect a problem with the rudder, which controls the plane's movement to the left and right, but they find no evidence of a malfunction. nearly two years after the crash, a possible break in the case. the pilot of an eastwind airlines boeing 737 experiences a sudden roll as the jet approaches richmond, virginia. >> he quickly got...

Can then deflect the rudder in the opposite direction. >> if you jam the secondary valve just slightly off neutral, you could cause the valves to basically misalign and import hydraulic fluid in the wrong direction so the rudder reversed operation. this would be like driving your car and you turn to the left and the car goes right. you'll never figure this out before the car goes off the road. >> investigators had found a lethal malfunction in a valve the size of a pencil capable of bringing down a boeing 737. the malfunction leaves no marks or scars, almost as if it never happened, matching e...