Originally Posted by
blackdog7
There must be a different vid showing the line releasing from the hook because I could not see that on the 4 clips reviewed. I'll stick with the cheese slicer theory. I'm sure something close to the truth will come out in the accident report.
Glad everyone is ok
Look very carefully at 3:37 in the last video I posted: the line is tugged and the cargo swing moves, but the hook doesn't release. In a split second there is the noise of a blade hitting a wire, the left door flies open and the tail boom starts to separate.
In this photo, there appears to be a line still attached to the hook:
