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WillFrasier
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I won't exclude that the deflection seen on the Rudder at discovery and recovery is not the deflection that caused the separation, iow, full deflection to starboard. It took massive hydraulic power to put it there, and at sever, with no hydraulics or command to return it to neutral (or other), it may be there just as it was. The damage to the bottom of the Rudder may have been air induced, that portion, in the airflow, would be taking the brunt of the air.
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And you should've also noticed that in at least one photo of the fin for AF447 while it was on the ship, the rudder was much more deflected than when the fin lay on the surface of the ocean(tell him Graybeard). Required 'massive hydraulic power ' ??
Pictures better than words :
