Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
"The wreckage was distributed in a diameter of about 50 yards" doesn't sound like an in-flight breakup to me.
Leaving aside that I'm not aware of such a case with an AeroComander we have seen e.g. wingtips fold up in flight but not totallly separate on light aircraft before. Not saying this was the case here. But from the diameter of the wreckage we cannot safely exclude that some kind of major inflight structural problem has occured.