Just as some CVR may be upsetting to the families, likewise some pics of the empennage may be upsetting to Airbus?
I found nothing, save Machaca's excellent pic of the 330 innards complete with jackscrew and RCU.........
There was that "Unidentified" pile of debris to the Northeast in the debris field, I always took that to be the tail feathers. No comment from BEA re: (that I can recall).
MLA. Interesting. Wasn't a spoiler located and recovered in the initial search? Wasn't it one of "4,5,6?" Could the 'g' have been =>2 on the climb? Could a spoiler anomaly have been the result of overstress at initial NURL? Thus far, ACARS is unable and BEA unmoved, to address mechanicals? ~500knots and a manual input initiating an extreme ascent?
Food for thought?
Last edited by bearfoil; 21st Jul 2011 at 19:34.