[DugwayDuke]

There's been an interview of an eyewitness claiming the tail separated prior to the wing/engines thats been posted on a couple of other threads. The eyewitness was located on a boat in Jamaca Bay short of the Rockaways. Collaborating this, MSNBC is running video of a large police boat (think tugboat size) hoisting a segment of the tail out of the bay. Hard to estimate size but the AA is intact, so 20-30 feet wouldn't be a bad estimate of segment size. Anchor guy says the video is from the Bay near the runway. Seems to indicate tail may have separated prior to engine/wing separation. Course, the engine could have blown sending fragments back into the tail.

[freeasinbeer]

And also, MSNBC anchor just stated that the A300 is incapable of dumping fuel. Any pilots on here confirm this? Their resident expert thinks that the eyewitness reports of fuel escaping from the jet are correct, but that the fuel was escaping from a hole that was created by some catastrophic event. As far as we can tell, the debris path STARTS in Jamaica Bay, where the tail section was found. Now why would only the very rear of the plane drop into the bay if the engine fell off?