# Can a modern jet liner land without the tailplane?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 8, 2025, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-modern-jet-liner-land-without-the-tailplane/1024686 "2025-11-08T12:07:29Z")\
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Here are two fresh posts in the main aviation thread about loss of horizontal tail:

> [@The Great Ongoing Aviation Thread (general and other)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-aviation-thread-general-and-other/600499/8709):
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> This is from the Aviation 2/7 Facebook page: The FAA has issued an urgent Airworthiness Directive (AD) for nearly 600 CRJ regional jets (including CRJ-550, -700, -900, and -1000 models) due to the risk of horizontal stabilizer failure. The directive, effective November 20, is based on reports—initially by Transport Canada—of missing or loose bolts on the horizontal stabilizer’s anti-yaw fitting block. According to the FAA, this hardware failure could lead to the loss of the stabilizer and cons…

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