Thanks. Just had a look at that machine on floats in the harbor right after the landing. Whoever was flying did all of the right things-fantastic effort.
The question of the controllability/CG would, in the Bahamas case, then rest on whether the separate pieces of that tail cone came off in the air or at water impact. Associated with that question is the physical evidence of the ripped metal edges shown in the rear of the main fuselage in the pictures taken at the recovery of wreckage. The structure in that area has to be quite substantial and strong due to the flight loads and hard landing loads design requirements. Never say never in aviation, but I’m having difficulty convincing myself that the water impact alone did all that. Well, we’ll see, one of these days.