Structural failure?

Posted November 13th, 2007 by lex

The USAF red-striped (grounded) its F-15 force in the wake of the 2 November crash we amature(ish) crash investigators discussed earlier in the month, citing concerns about possible “structural failure.” Given what I could make out of the crash site, the theory seemed bizarre to me – while things that break off in flight do tend to flutter to ground with little forward velocity, they also typically result in a fairly wide dispersion of parts. The grainy image capture I extracted from online video clearly showed the wingline, empennage and tail of a stricken Eagle, and there was enough debris forward of the wing to suggest the outline of a burned fuselage and nose section.

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