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What I love to hate about this forum. You can't just expect everyone to go along with good arguments let alone flimsy ones. Why can't...

Net forces will inherently keep the gear deployed under the wing.

Yes, that relatively small and fragile tip was never a likely cause of tearing off the entire wing from the root.

Did you watch the video?

Here is a better representation of what I believe the crash video shows. This theory requires both the main spar and side brace linkage...

Gratuitous 3D - crosseyed (with images from Youtube WBIR Channel 10)

The right wing buckled at the fuselage, the right gear was a fulcrum!!!! In the first five frames, you can see the left and right...

Watching the landing frame by frame, a plume erupts at the wing root. It appears to be an initial puff which would be the tire bursting...

Judging from the landing image above, the aircraft was nowhere near 11.6 degrees of roll at touchdown so the landing gear crushed on impact.

From analysis of the landing video (Facebook and on X), a post on PPRuNE provides an exact location for the touchdown.

Also, from a post on PPRuNe, as transition is made from a crab approach to longitudinal alignment with the centerline, an increasing...

In case there is any question of the location of the wreckage, from CBC and overlaid on Google Earth (Maps). It's barely 500 meters...

Data posted on PPRuNe Forums (or here for all the posts) indicates ground speed on approach at 103 kts so it's not an unlikely stopping...

The issues compounded very fast. It's surprising how fast the aircraft flipped and also how fast it came to a stop. I wonder if I...