Originally Posted by
Sailvi767
we are not talking a meter or two. It appears the A321 tail was at least 15 maybe 20 meters over the safe line.
That may well be true, but the fracture line on the A321's fin/rudder indicates that it was the A330's winglet that sliced through it (as is also obvious from the video).
It follows that if the A321 had stopped only 5-6 meters farther on then at worse we would have been looking at a damaged rudder, maybe not even that.
All a bit academic now, of course.