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"Morgans" wrote:

"Jay Honeck" wrote

The wing clearly departed the airframe before the crash. I wonder if
these
old birds are simply fatigued?

I wonder about catastrophic unconfined engine failure, severing the spar.
There was an account of the sound and sight of an explosion before the wing
departed, wasn't there?

Snapping structures sound a lot like explosions -- especially to
nonexpert witnesses.

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