Investigators will want to discover if the Air France Airbus suffered such severe turbulence that it caused catastrophic structural damage - the loss of a rudder, engine mounting, or even a broken wing.
SOURCE : BBC
Not sure if that will go down well with the mods here at the moment - since any reference to structural overloading of components seems to warrant deletion. No matter what the source or how qualified one might be.Specifically, in my case - the entire transcript of public hearings held by the NTSB concerning AA587.