That looks like the skin peeled back from the LE of the blade.
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It seems that the tear in the skin outboard is larger than the tear at the fracture site, suggesting that this peel back is a precursor to the fracture of the blade. If it had resulted from the blade breaking I would expect to see the size of the tear being larger at the fracture site.
Does anyone have details of the blade construction?
Blakmax