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Old 9th June 2009 | 02:02
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Nakata77
 
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the tail fin concerns me. it looks like a fatigue fracture across the base of the tail - a perfectly shear split in a perfect line. that is very strange. if the tail fin broke off because of overload then the aircraft would enter a horiztonal spin hence the pitot tubes seeing differing speed indications and eventually the aircraft will throw itself apart. The g forces on the pilots at the front would have been too great to even do anything
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