[bootless]

Re: missing the peninsula...

Once you lose your vertical stabilizer, any pitch control is gone. Here, from my friend at Airborne, from Avsig:

"Looks like the vertical stabilizer was found some distance from the fuselage. With an engine out (missing) and no vertical stab it's not surprising that they lost control. What I want to know now is how the vertical stab became detached. All I can think of is the departing engine might have hit the vertical stabilizer but the pictures of the stab didn't show any signs of such an impact."

[Lessismore]

If the front part of the wing above the engine were damaged, the outboard section of the wing would fold inward and upward until it ripped off. The Fox eyewitness said that part of the wing hit the vertical stabilizer.