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Old 3rd Nov 2015, 20:50
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henra
 
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Originally Posted by Mauersegler
Yes it is one side of the tailplane/horizontal stabilizer, see here:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...B6henruder.jpg

enormous forces at work, or?


Yes indeed! Looks like enormous loads and violent disintegration of the HS. Must have been huge vertical loads. Something must have changed the AoA of the HS drastically in a very short time. Possibly something heavily hitting/severing the jackscrew or its mounts?
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