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Old 17th Jan 2012, 00:06
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@roulishollandais:

The evidence is in the BEA interim report #2:

The VS was salvaged with the HST jackscrew upper attachments frames 86/87,
The jackscrew itself was located on the site.
Parts of the HST (which fractured on impact) where located in some distance from the site.

If the VS separated in flight there was no structure to take the HST loads anymore and the HST including jackscrew would have been separated too.
Besides that there would have been a load of messages containing Rudder, Elevator and Trim failures and the rear control surfaces FDR traces would not have been recorded until the end.





Structure part in green.
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