takata, thanks very much. I thought later of the Nagoya accident as well.
rgbrock1;
Would the debris pattern exhibited by the A330 test flight accident in Toulouse in 1994 resemble the current one?
Not sure; yes, one was at takeoff, this one on approach.
I ask because the wreckage pattern is so much at odds with an approach accident, (Learmont has observed this as have others) that resolving the question may lead further "upstream" in terms of causal factors. The example of the Turkish B737 has been used here.
The Toulouse accident was not a high-speed one but it would have been high-energy with very high fragmentation, just as the
Nagoya A300 accident was.
The photo of the
Nagoya accident site illustrates what I mean:
Obviously it would be helpful to have aerial photographs of the entire scene, from first impact, to the runway fences.
I'm not speculating on or pointing to cause or even what happened yet as there is no information to do so, but I am trying to resolve the question of the nature of the accident site which looks like a high-speed impact but which doesn't square with the phase of flight.
PJ2