[looscannon]

This is precisely the kind of thing that calls for the experts among us freepers to step forward and provide factual or at least educated analysis. In the course of her international investigative work, Hillary's Lovely Legs has been talking to the avian flock (bird brains?) about this crash and should have scooped up quite a bit of information, I would think. Perhaps she will share some of it with us and thereby prevent some here from getting ruffled feathers. Paging Hillary's Lovely Legs...

[cookcounty]

Could someone with more than a tad of physics speak to the following:

If a detached engine sliced off the rear stabilizer, doesn't that mean the engine was moving more slowly in the flight direction than the rest of the aircraft? With less forward speed, wouldn't it drop somewhat faster? Just wondering.