Originally Posted by
G0ULI
The reports of the time were not wrong. They just do not contain the level of detail regarding the sequence of events after the initial impact with the railroad embankment that you wish to know.
No, the official report made an affirmative statement that was wrong. This is not a question of merely being excessively terse. They could have said that the plane hit the embankment, pieces were scattered about, and the farthest wreckage traveled 1200 feet from the first impact. Nothing wrong with that, nothing to argue about.
Instead the CAB said the aft fuselage slid tail first the final 820 feet. This is an erroneous statement. It is not lacking detail that I seek, it provides detail that does not match the photo evidence. It is wrong. Hence it gives rise to the puzzle.