Pressure vessel decompression is of little significance in the break-up. There really is no such thing as a hole in the fuselage causing a decompression to finish the job.
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... opening up the can is only part of the issue, pressure ripping and skin section exposure to air stream and tare away etc are some of the others
that small debris might have struck the other plane.
.... and just happened to take out the extremities of two surfaces on one side of the Embraer ....
the president of Infraero suggesting the most likely scenario as that of the Legacy's winglet shearing hydraulic/electric lines in the 738's horizontal stabilizer.
.. perhaps in translation, horizontal stabiliser means wings??? ... otherwise (nose to nose) how do you get to the horizontal stab of the 738 with the wing tip
and horizontal stab of the Embraer????
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London Mil ... quite so!
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... is the report from the Legacy pilot after landing of TCAS being OFF a furphy then??