So bill, if the Aircraft dutch rolled you don't think that would be because the TAIL WAS MISSING!
Come on bill, you don't fly the aircraft, you have been out of it for a while, and the greater increase in INS for flight instruments rather than the old DGs and stuff change their ability to be spoofed...
The first input in the DFDR by Sten was a coordinated input (rudder and aileron went the same way) Later events were different.
Your reliance on witness reports is really funny. I choose to use the one that reported the explosion, and the other 1 that reported a missle.
We have been doing those departures out of Kennedy for years bill. Every damn day. They weren't any closer than 100s of other wake encounters. The seperation wasn't especially tight. And like the 727/737 encounter that lead to PITT the only thing that the wake did was start the event. It didn't tear the tail off. You are the only person talking about 200 kts wind blasts shearing off the tail. The NTSB is not, the APA is not, the FAA is not, how is it that you, not a party at all to the investigation come up with this brilliant insight?
ANd the captain didn't shut down the engines of 990 himself to try and save the aircraft. While that would reduce thrust in the 707 days and not change controllability much because of the cable backups. It would be SUICIDE in a 767, Which incidentally is exactly what 990 was (murder suicide to more precise because of all the people he took with him)....