Originally Posted by
Ian W
As was pointed out before the leading edges of the HS and VS do not show any damage - so they were not 'hit' by anything. Yet both left and right HS broke away from the empenage. Only aerodynamic loads well outside the design limits could do that.
Are you sure? A large part of the leading edge of this one appears to missing entirely.
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/5...ml#post9174846
(trying to link to picture of the broken HS in FDMII's post #1862)
The VS isn't exactly in good condition either... ?