HS second pic
Kulver, Thanks so much for your continuing supply of photos. Your last HS pic at 1790 shows a LOT of leading edge damage not previously visible. The damage is generalized along the visible length (as it would be by a large flying skin section), and not an impact at a single point.
Would posters who have suggested a failure of the left HS tip upward agree that the LE damage in this pic would have probably decreased the strength of the left of HS and increased the probability of the line of failure at the HS center sections as observed? Absent any pic so far of the right HS, how would LE damage to it impact a proposed sequence of events?