Originally Posted by
SASless
OK....we have a pre-impact failure of a rod end....and an un-contained engine failure in the same crashed aircraft. Two completely different components in two different areas of the aircraft.
Just what do we take out of that situation?
Are we overlooking something in all of the wild assed guessing that is going on about what caused the Crash?
The engine blowing up was most likely the result of the engine decoupling from the Mgb and overspeeding.