Originally Posted by
tdracer
Most if not all of the damage to the horizontal tail was not due to aerodynamic forces. The landing gear uplocks failed and the gear deployed through the landing gear doors during the pullout - the debris from the gear doors is what damaged the tail.
Vilas, my memory is the same as westhawk - it returned to service. According to Wiki:
tdracer you may be right.If it flew again it's credit to people who put it back.