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Old 10th Jan 2015, 21:01
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_Phoenix
 
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It looks like a belly flop. The horizontal stabilizer hit the sea surface, then under the impact force the tail is torn apart like a banana peeling.
See in imagine below: half of the pressure bulkhead is compressed, the accordion skin aft of LHS door, buckled structure at the bottom of leading edge of the vertical stabilizer
http://abload.de/image.php?img=2628x2471219u9b.jpg

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