[YoungKentuckyConservative]

Get your facts straight - it was the plane's *tail* that experienced some sort of structural failure and 'fell off' ...

You are wrong. They claimed the "engine" fell off which is why it landed miles from the rest of the crash site. Get your facts straight.

[_Jim]

They claimed the "engine" fell off which is why it landed miles from the rest of the crash site. Get your facts straight.

Huh?

Care to explain how the tail was pulled FROM THE BAY ... (an engine WAS NOT picked up 'miles from the rest of the crash')?

Here - I'll help get you started:

AA587 Tail

NTSB updates New York plane crash probe

CAUSE OF PLANE CRASH SOUGHT Regulators are concerned about failure in widely used composite materials ... Failure at the attachment points that held the Airbus' vertical stabilizer, also known as the tail fin, to the fuselage is evident in this NTSB photo of AA 587's tail fin recovered from Jamaica Bay.

[_Jim]

Let's clear-up your idiotic mis-conceptions on this once and for all:

The FDR’s rudder data becomes unreliable about 2.5 seconds before the end of the recording, and sound spectrum analysis shows that engine sounds can be heard on the cockpit voice recorder beyond that point.

The rudder and tail fin were found first in the wreckage path, followed by the engines and then by the main wreckage impact point at the intersection of Newport and 131st Street, Belle Haven, New York.

http://www.airsafe.com/events/aa587.htm

PS. Please, do us all a favor and quit making stuff up ... it does FreeRepublic and yourself a great disservice to continue doing so ...