[MassLengthTime]

Vertical Stabilizer and components of aircraft recovered from the water

Vert Stab attachment point. To my very untrained eye, there appears to be a lot of wear in the area where the bolt/flange/fuselage bracket assembly attaches.

More pics here.

[El Gato]

there appears to be a lot of wear in the area where the bolt/flange/fuselage bracket assembly attaches.

Looks like it might have gotten kind of warm too, don't you think? But maybe the inner layers always look like that?

[RaceBannon]

I dont get it. If that much fiber snapped in flight, it would sound like an explosion. I have heard some 1" stuff that sounded like a grenade inthe shoop, and was louder than all equipment running at the time.