[bluecollarman]

Well, make a joke if you want. Anyone familiar with aircraft could bring one down without a bomb. Duct tape would hold an object for a while and eventually give way, jet engines are pretty fragile. I do not have any problem with the theory that part of the engine sliced off a section of the tail.

[fod]

thanks for the permission.

If someone were to post a graphic representation of the debris field, showing what ended up where, I'd be more confident about what did happen

I am going to say, due my experience, I'm sceptical that birdstrike(s) could cause that type of catastrophic failure to not only the motors, but also the airframe. Tails, wings, and motor mounts are constructed pretty robustly.

When there are aircraft crashes, the mjority of the plane stayts together until impact.

I can only recall a few that did not- O'Hare, when the motor mount failed, and a couple of bombed planes...

Not an authorative answer, by all means, but again, just color me sceptical