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...yet if you start looking at the 36th second of the clip, when the plane is on the ground with all three wheels, it looks like a structural failure of the fuselage right behind the wings suddenly developing with no apparent cause. The plane does not skid, or lean, or shakes laterally, like it would have had one of the front wheels really found a bump or whatever like written above. Simply the fuselage suddenly cracks open, and due to said crack finding itself in the middle of a lever between the weights of the engine and of the long tail, the plane opens up bridge style making the front hit the dirt and begin cartwheeling.

More than that, hearing the record, it doesn't sound at all like the engine was firewalled at any moment, like they say in the writ above... thus my innate Italian blood makes me strongly suspect a "biscotto" in the workings to protect someone from being persecuted from the law for shoddy workmanship on that sort-of plane, or worse, for having approved of its building and actual usage.


PS
"Biscotto", translated "Biscuit", it's an Italian slang term to indicate foul play.
It is taken from old (and not so old) times horse racing. When a racing horse had to be drugged to doctor a race, it was customary to cover the act giving said horse an innocent looking biscuit that contained the illegal substance mixed with its dough.
Of course, after a while this practice became SO customary and at the same time SO NOT innocent looking that nowadays the act itself has taken off as a proverb. In modern Italian language, "Fare il biscotto", "To do the biscuit", means literally: "To cheat".

Who designed the thing anyway, it looks like somebody sketched it out on the back of an envelope!
And did the aviation authorities test it and give it a certificate of airworthiness?

wahubna wrote on Jun 19^th, 2012 at 9:14pm:

I presume you haven't seen the film. Flight of the Phoenix