Originally Posted by
bearfoil
In my experience, FRP has a signature failure in high energy impacts that is unmistakable. It explodes.
Curious as to what you regard as "high energy" impact.
From the wreckage photos and descriptions, Air-NZ Perpignan crash looks to me to be much higher engery that AF447 - but still the VS didn't "explode".
How would you compare these two crashes (with what info we have) as regards impact energy (and condition of other wreckage), departure of VS before impact or not, and condition of VS after impact ?