I read the delamination article with high interest. As many engineers I
was trying to find a logic in all the information I got about the crash.
I wonder if the delamination theory of the tail rudders stands firm.
Look at photo below showing it still has a big part of the rudder. It
still looks quite complete.



I found interesting reading on Airbus crashes on
http://www.fear-of-flying.us/index.php?p=1_11_The-Robot-Plane
And more on how the plane possibly broke up in the last lines of
http://www.fear-of-flying.us/index.php?news&nid=8
So the tail probably was torn off at crash?

Randolph in Paris

Randolf sent a picture and I forgot to attach it. Here it is.

Here too are some pictures of the loss of the vertical fin
on the AA-587 flight Airbus crash on Long Island.

Paul Lamar