Some witness indicate that the plane swinged, and presumably impacted with the right wing on the tarmac. This makes me think about that the pilot hasn´t been able to control de crippling plane. Was the rudder or elevator affected by the debris after the plane engine explosion?.
Could be both. Loss in elevator control could mean that the plane could not lift it’s nose up as fast as it wanted to and combined with loss in rudder, may mean that it banked to the right – hence the contact. Though all we say now is going to be speculation, until the accident report is progressed.
I have to admit, I’m feeling very odd this evening about the whole thing. I’ve spent a wonderful day at MAN observing and photographing these beautiful and awe inspiring machines, and then as we’re about to leave, I hear of this. I’m sitting here editing my images just thinking… Why?.. And how? How can something so majestic and powerful turn so quickly into something so tragic? I really, really don’t get it.
I think maybe, a lot of us have fallen guilty of taking these machines for granted – perhaps as there have not been any high-profile, large media covered incident involving a large loss of life in a while.
That is to say, I think most of us carry on with our wonderful hobby of following aviation and forget to remember that at the end of the day, they are only man made machines and as such, not 100% full proof and incidents such as these can (and do) happen.
Of course, my wishes as well go out to those families that have lost loved ones.
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