[mordo]

Given that the 747 had been in service 26 years at that time with no previous problem of that nature and given that they could legitimately re-create the alleged problem under test conditions and given that it hasn't happened since, I'd say it was a total fabrication, as was the NTSB's ridiculous video claiming the plame climbed an additional 3000 feet AFTER the explosion.

Well you can say all these things for sure, but your logic does not make them fact for sure.
I can cite many catastrophic incidents that were not really known design flaws till they appeared as a catastrophe. The Comet, Aloha, Lauda Air, UAL flt-811. There are more.
Then you ridicule the video. But if you took an airframe that big with that kind of wing area at that airspeed trimmed for level flight then suddenly remove all the mass forward of the wing, the airframe will pitch up, and its forward momentum will then cause a climb till it runs out of airspeed.

But I can tell when I'm not wanted, so long Mordo out.

[Wil H]

the "design flaw" in this case appears to be a) a one off case and b) unprovable or recreatable

there have been no otherr instances of thiis supposed flaw in hundreds of thousand of hours of 747 flights.

As to the video, the plane was not trimmed out in level flight it was in climb out

there is no way that 747 with it's nose pitched up, fully laden, is going to gain an additional 3000 feet after breaking off it's nose. The tail would drop,the plane would stall and falll out of the sky in short order, it certainly would not have the momenyum or power to make the additional altitude.