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Old 13th May 2016, 17:23
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So it looks the 2 aft suspensions bars were ripped off the fuselage including the foundation hinges. Probably after first failure of either: the epicyclic module or the front suspension bar upper hinge point (and following epicyclic failure or Gear housing after extensive uneven loading)

This makes maintenance mistakes at the difficult to access forward bottom hinge point less probable. Unless the forward suspension bar has not been found on the Main wreckage, and would have broken at two ends.

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