I've noted a couple of references to an Alitalia flight which witnessed the accident aircraft with a nose down attitude. From reading all of these posts it seems that many believe the tail hit first, perhaps breaking off and then the nose down attitude. Which makes sense to this SLF.
It would seem to me, though, that if the Alitalia flight witnessed the nose down attitude and the subsequent crash wouldn't the flight crew also have noticed the lack of a tail and made reference to this as well?
Has anyone seen/read mention of this?
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