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Originally Posted by Baron von Kriterium
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Apparently the vertical stabilizer (rudder) was torn off the tail just prior to impact and found at the leading edge of the debris field. Is this true? That’s a strong part of the aircraft and even when the plane comes apart, you usually find the vertical stabilizer still attached to the horizontal stabilizer. For aerodynamic forces to rip that thing off, the aircraft would have to be spinning or encountered some other catastrophic forces just prior to impact. The final tens of seconds seem to have been in a relatively straight line, as per this dash cam video:
https://twitter.com/Khaaasteh
This looks like a plane that is under power but unable to maintain altitude. This, plus the gap of four minutes between loss of ADS-B and crash, tells me this plane was maneuvering back to airport under power. But I don't know for sure and I don't know what to make of it, but I do not believe a TOR shot this plane down. |
So I totally appreciate this reply, very informative and gives a better understanding as to some of the details.
With that being said, if you do not believe it was shot down then how do you explain the footage showing an object flying at an upward trajectory striking the plane just minutes before it crashed?
I'm honestly curious what your theory on that would be. Perhaps that footage is not legit?