Well it looks from these photos on the TSB web site that that 9G-MKJ did indeed did make a “ski-jump” take off over the trees to land beyond the road at the left in the second picture below, although by then the aircraft was minus the entire tailplane.
http://www.tsb.gc.ca/en/media/photo_...4/photo_02.asp
http://www.tsb.gc.ca/en/media/photo_...4/photo_04.asp
(Sorry to post these photos as links rather than as images but, as someone else also commented, PPRuNe does not seem to like asp files.)
In both pictures the horizontal stabilizer is visible at the start boundary of the trees.
The larger white object in the center of the first photo is the fin, also shown in this picture with the “MK” visible.
http://www.tsb.gc.ca/en/media/photo_...4/photo_10.asp
The T-junction in the second picture is directly in line with the runway. Click on the caption of the second photo on this page to get an enlarged view of the runway from space.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/natio...fax041014.html
These picture seem to me to show that the trees between the horizontal stabilizer and the road, and the road itself, are entirely undamaged. So the plane must have passed
over them.
So in summary, the plane:
left its wheel marks in the berm,
left the fin between the berm and the trees,
left the horizontal stabilizer at the start boundary of the trees,
the rest of the aircraft must have passed
over the trees and the road to crash and burn beyond.
Does anyone else see a different interpretation?
Cheers,
