Originally Posted by
helispotter
ATSB also indicate damage to -DQJ as being "minor" consistent with one of the posts here. It makes me wonder how -DQJ sustained only minor damage while -DZJ seemingly became uncontrollable. .
PURE speculation at it's finest, however this may answer your question as to how one aircraft can sustain minor damage and the other becomes uncontrollable. How can you end up so close? Once you add some bank angle in there on one or both aircraft, things go bad very quickly..