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Old 17th May 2003, 23:32
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In fact, although the fabric off the control surfaces burned away, as did some of the tail ribs, everything else is still extant. And there's a surprising amount of that still useable. So, when MN-E finally comes out of the shed, it'll still be significantly MN-E.

Then I am amazed. I have a video of the accident, and the aeroplane flies into the runway staright off a loop, essentially level (slightly nose and left wing low), but stalled and with a very high rate of descent. The left wing and lower fuselage appear to totaly disintegrate before the fireball consumes the aeroplane (the runway surface is one third of the way up the fuselage, as if the aeroplane has descended through it!) and then the remains appear to break up and bounce away in all directions.

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