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Old 18th April 2011 | 11:27
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What I see is that a belly flop on the hard desert pan of sufficient violence to completely destroy the aircraft, did not separate the fin from the empennage or from the HS, but that the rudder was torn all to hell.

Rescue workers examine debris from Afriqiyah Airways flight 8U771 at Tripoli airport May 12.
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