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Old 16th May 2010, 11:38
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Would the wire rapped around the end cone corroborate the kind of AOA you are suggesting?
Impossible to say. From the pictures I think the hanging cable may be part of the aircraft structure.... I don't know. If they are power cables they may have been collected by the tumbling tail section. Are the power lines/poles before or after the initial tailcone impact points?

I can't see how power cables would snag and stay attached to the aircraft during the possible initial drag of the tail (if that happened at all).
I saw the power line cut about 250 meters before impact. 4 poles are down. The cables on the ground look like the one around the cone. The initial impact point is a print very similar in shape to the end cone. Please refer to my previous podtings where I describe my yesterday visit to the crash site.

Another clue to the AOA could be the relative angle between the line of cut in the inferior part of the tail section and the main longitudinal axis
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