Originally Posted by
mm43
With regard to the V/S, the following translated comment was made:-
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The "flew away to the front" is something the BEA have never mentioned.
This
was in the first report (at least). To quote the section on the VS (my emphasis added):
The middle and rear fasteners with the related fragments of
the fuselage hoop frames were present in the fin base. The distortions of the
frames showed that they broke during a forward motion with a slight twisting
component towards the left.
By the time you've gone via french, german and english, "flew away to the front" is about right.