[Kharon]

I was having a chat with P2 the first time we saw the pictures of the flaperon, “those ends look very neat and undamaged” said I “they do” says he.  We had a lengthy discussion but, neither of us being qualified to hold an opinion, decided to shut up and wait and see what the ‘experts’ made of it.  

But it still puzzles me; knock off the barnacles give it a buff and you could just about put it back where it came from (slight exaggeration, but).  For something which has been ‘torn off’ the airframe the overlaid diagrams depicting the various attach points fit very neatly over the part; the holes undistorted.  

Newton gave us F=Ma; have a little look at the damage to a car door which has been ripped off by a passing car; the distortion to the attach points is incredible, the supporting frame work unusable.  The mathematics of that analysis can easily be understood, take an average bus @ 40 Kph hitting a stationary door of a four wheel drive the forces are large; multiply that by the weight of a 777 and you can glean an idea of the forces involved, they are colossal.

Now I’m not an engineers bootstrap, let alone a forensic investigator of such matters; but the questions raised are worthy of an answer, I don’t like ‘lingering doubt’ ; any answer would do, even it’s just to tell us to sit down and shut up.  Anyone qualified care to comment?  Tinkicker?

I wish Alan Stray was on deck for this one; we may not get all the answers, but at least the ones we would get would be credible, balanced and more than likely accurate. Which would beat Beaker Bollocks for breakfast, lunch and tea, especially the French flavoured ones.  

Toot toot.