[ScholarWarrior]

No. If I recall, the American flight in Chicago was a DC-10 that popped a blade in the turbofan on the tail engine, slicing through the rudder and the horizontal stabilizer.
1. No tail engine for the A-300.
2. Tail picture appears intact when fished from the Bay.

I thought catastrophic engine failure too until I saw the tail.
Looks like bomb in the tail or mechanical sabotage.

Time to round 'em up on the Ponderosa.

[Basilides]

Thank you...I thought I was being a bit paranoid...but will somebody please explain how an entire vertical stabilizer comes off the jet intact before impact ???

I hope this doesn't go the way of Flight 800...

[Smogger]

I thought catastrophic engine failure too until I saw the tail. Looks like bomb in the tail or mechanical sabotage.

Out here is Southern Cali on KFI 640 talk they have an "aviation expert" and he said the entire thing is troubling (read not possible under known scenarios). Espesically, the part about the tail rudder being left on the runway (read bomb). He said he did not now of a scenario that would do the type of damage that occurred including catastrophic engine failure.