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There isn't anything they could have done. The washout just delays the problem a little for example. While that is good washout is a finesse application of a solution to get a little slower landing speed and optimize flow fields over the wing for something like a big cargo carrier. Washout to stop the hard snap that occurs when a lot of up elevator is suddenly applied won't do much, some but not much. The same for all the other things mentioned, they are finesse items, they might modify the break angle a few degrees but it will still break just as hard when it does.

It is just what airplanes do. You can do a lot of calculations and wind tunnel data and at the end of the day it is just something airplanes do. Pick up a rattle snake and shake it and it will bite you. It's just its nature. The same with an airplane and up elevator.

The best cure is to not do it.