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To: fireforeffect
Any engineers here who can speculate as to what would cause the vertical stabilizer in the tail to be bent down like this???? Bomb in the tail, perhaps?:


11 posted on 11/05/2015 10:26:03 AM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

I think it was a combination of gravity and dirt that bent the tail.

What detached it from the rest of the plane is of some interest though.


13 posted on 11/05/2015 10:33:36 AM PST by fireforeffect (A kind word and a 2x4, gets you more than just a kind word.)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

vertical stabilizer in the tail to be bent down like this
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Inertia of the tail itself, at crash. Plane structure stops, but tail continues downward path.

Kind of like internal organ damage during a car crash. Body stops, but heart doesn’t and it rips aorta loose.


17 posted on 11/05/2015 11:18:51 AM PST by Scrambler Bob (Using 4th keyboard due to wearing out the "/" and "s" on the previous 3)
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