Air Midwest commuter planes cleared for flight WICHITA, Kan. (AP) =97 All of the Air Midwest commuter planes inspected= since=20 a fatal crash in Charlotte, N.C., last week have been cleared for further=20 flight, the airline said Monday. The company, a subsidiary of Phoenix-based= =20 Mesa Air Group Inc., said it expected to complete inspections on 40=20 Raytheon/Beech 1900D turboprops in operation. All of the 29 checked had=20 elevator controls that functioned properly, the company said. There were no= =20 significant problems discovered. Information from the flight data recorder= =20 recovered from US Airways Express Flight 5481 showed the elevator control=20 on the tail of the plane moving up and down in an unusual way. Elevators=20 are flaps that swing from the rear of a plane's horizontal tail stabilizer,= =20 increasing or decreasing lift. Maintenance workers in West Virginia did=20 repairs on the assembly that controls movement of the elevator two days=20 before the flight crashed Wednesday after 37 seconds, killing all 21=20 aboard. Three final Beech 1900D aircraft in Air Midwest's fleet are not in= =20 service and will be inspected this week, the airline said. Air Midwest said= =20 it has made its findings available to the National Transportation Safety=20 Board and the Federal Aviation Administration. *************************************************** The owner of Roger's Trinbago Site/TnTisland.com Roj (Roger James) escape email mailto:ejames@escape.ca Trinbago site: www.tntisland.com Carib Brass Ctn site www.tntisland.com/caribbeanbrassconnection/ Steel Expressions www.mts.net/~ejames/se/ Site of the Week: http://www.atlanticlng.com TnT Webdirectory: http://search.co.tt *********************************************************