Originally Posted by
Profit Max
What about the engine of the 737 hitting the Legacy winglet, and the winglet of the 737 hitting the Legacy stab?
But probably the wing of the 737 is too long for that.
The wing would have gone through the Legacy's stab.
Does anyone know the kind of forces that would cause a structural failure on a Legacy winglet ?
There is something very fishy about all of this, the 737 would have had an awful lot more momentum than the bizjet and as anyone who has seen a prang on the apron knows, winglets are pretty frangibile structures. I cannot imagine many parts of a 737 not being able to lop off a winglet with only minor damage.