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you must explain how this happened other than by extreme aerodynamic loads when the severed tail tumbled placing the HS flat into the slipstream
Great Post- agree with say 90 percent and especially the bit about video.
RE the quote above - I do take a bit of exception as to timing. Here is why. IF the tail section both both right and left HS plus VS were no longer connected to airplane- I believe there is NOT enough mass-momentum of the remaining tail structure to resist the very high bending loads involved to shear off the HS. - Of course it might be possible that since both HS wound up at 90 degrees to airstream, one HS ( left? ) broke first. And then the combination of VS and other HS would tilt into airstream at a low drag attitude and virtually fly off in a ' sideways' direction. Which **may** explain why jackscrew and HS BOX and RH HS have either yet to be found or have not been shown .
Which of course gets back to what was the initiating event ?
