Hi sorry I have been away, did the tail "Fall Off" or has the TRDS thrashed about following failure and "Severed" the tailboom. Have not had time to trawl all the way through the posts.
Cannot accept that a pilot with heavy feet could make it fall OFF, surely the design overload is there to cater for such an eventuality, over and over again.
If its about glue and sticky stuff not being sticky enough!!! then thats really shocking!!
God was smiling on the crew that day for sure.
DB