Sorry Overtalk, I understood the point made in the two parts of the referenced article from the beginning, however I am having great difficulty in understanding how an overspeed induced departure will lead to other than a sky full of confetti.or a high speed impact with the water. The fact that AF447 arrived at the surface apparently essentially intact and apparently at low speed high angle of attack, high sink rate and perhaps in as little as 5 minutes requires an involved process if one assumes an initial overspeed departure from controlled flight. Until such time as additional information arrives supporting that view, IMHO it might be more productive to consider how a low speed departure from controlled flight might have happened.