Norwegian investigators have identified a fault in a pitch-trim servo circuit which might explain the unexpected pitch-up of a Sikorsky S-92 just before it fatally crashed during a North Sea ...

Maryland 'Trim issue' may be at fault in Maryland woman's death aboard corporate jet, FAA says Dana Hyde, 55, of Cabin John, MD, died aboard a Bombardier aircraft Friday ...

Faulty maintenance work on the pitch control rigging caused the Colgan Air Raytheon Beech 1900D crash just after take-off from Hyannis, Massachusetts, on 26 August 2003, according to the US ...

"The pitch trim fault was probably caused by the jamming of the actuator ball nut due to the freezing of water that had entered the component, itself probably the result of condensation.

The initial reactions to a pitch trim failure must be exactly correct for the specific make and model of an aircraft, otherwise the consequences of less-than-correct control inputs can allow ...

(After the pitch up, the trim tab separated from the left elevator.) In 1998, the P-51 Voodoo Chile also lost its left elevator trim tab, pitching up with a 10-G force that incapacitated the pilot ...

Credit: NTSB Recent incidents and accidents involving failures in aircraft pitch trim systems resulted in forces on the yoke that exceeded the combined physical strength of the two flight crew ...