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It added: “This condition, if not corrected, could lead in the worst-case scenario to an uncommanded elevator movement that may result in exceeding the aircraft’s structural capability.”

From MarketWatch • Nov. 28, 2025

A record of communications between Boeing and the airline, it sets out how the plane suffered an "uncommanded roll" at low altitude while preparing to land.

From BBC • Aug. 23, 2024

It blamed the accident on "uncommanded" inputs from Boeing's Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System, known as MCAS.

From Reuters • Dec. 28, 2022

A second bit was chosen to make the horizontal tail, also known as the stabilizer, swivel upwards uncommanded by the pilot, which has the effect of pitching the plane’s nose down.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 1, 2019

The union of the sexes, especially the married union, is an act to be of all others the most entirely free, spontaneous, uncommanded, and unconstrained.

From Moral Philosophy by Rickaby, Joseph , S. J.