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Old 7th Jul 2013, 00:42
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Ian W
 
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I'm still thinking about the constant comments on the US networks that the aircraft "cartwheeled/flipped over"

I'd imagine that would be news to the PAX and Crew.
Eyewitness accounts are often unreliable. So the aircraft lands short and there is a great cloud of dust - in which the entire tail breaks off - out of the cloud of smoke and debris comes the aircraft - and the fin is not sticking up - therefore it must be upside down - it bounces into more smoke and bits start breaking away. Excitable witnesses could assume - no fin upside down big clouds of smoke and debris 'rolling over' 'cartwheeling' etc.

I think the reports are understandable - but the media is taking them all as gospel even when it is blatantly obvious that an aircraft with wings still attached is unlikely to have 'rolled over'.
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