I guess I didn’t recall exactly correctly. I knew there was a fuel issue. I had forgotten about the tank switching.
You obviously know a lot more about planes than I do. There’s no question about that. I did, however, read a couple of detailed articles about the Denver crash. It turns out that one of the investigators actually got into an exact model of the plane Denver crashed in and tried to switch the tanks. He demonstrated that it was almost impossible to do it without pressing the rudder. If he’d been airborn, he’d have died just as Denver did.
Following that physical demonstration there was no dispute re the cause of the crash. It was a design flaw first and foremost, and Denver’s inexperience with that particular plane second.