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Old 3rd Nov 2015, 09:52
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Originally Posted by Leodis737
Collision with parts exiting the fuselage between the wingbox and door 4, blowing back onto the empennage (HS&VS)?
Before or after the empennage breaks off of the fuselage?

If it's before, it's not trivial for any object exiting the hole to hit the tail cone, since there's no straight line from one to the other.

If it's after, it's also not trivial because two parts are rapidly going to fly away from each other.

In either case, I would expect the attachment joint to be sufficiently sturdy that it's not going to be knocked loose by a flying suitcase.

Could be some kind of indirect effect, I suppose (things flying out of the hole and hitting the VS, the VS folding and hitting the tail cone.)
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