Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site terak.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!hao!noao!terak!doug From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: Re: China AL 747 Message-ID: <423@terak.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 17:29:06 EST Article-I.D.: terak.423 Posted: Tue Mar 5 17:29:06 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Mar-85 06:32:04 EST References: <372@haddock.UUCP> Organization: Terak Corporation, Scottsdale, AZ, USA Lines: 10 > The horizantal stabalizer was not torn off by the descent perse, > but by the wheel outer wheel well covers coming off and hitting > the stabalizer. The wheel were lowered to reduce the dive speed. The news report I saw on TV shortly after it happened said that the gear "lowered itself" as a result of the high positive G forces which resulted from the pilot's attempt to pull out of the dive. Has this been contradicted by later reports? -- Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug