Thank you, Larry... all very possible in aiding the loss of tail and engines... You think they may have had a better chance if that tail would have stayed 'on'?!

"Sudden loss of the tail section would make it impossible for the pilots to control the airplane."

"I don’t know that we’ve had a failure in modern times of a tail on a commercial airplane, so I don’t know there’s any precedent and we’ll be looking very carefully at how the tail failed,” George Black Jr., a member of the National Transportation and Safety Board, told CNN."

What is the distance/time allowed between flights? A retired NTSB inspector on MSNBC yesterday said that in order for the next plane to be free from such wakes the distance should be between four to seven miles?! If I remember that right.

Marcia