[yorkietalkjilly]

It really does sound as if coming in too low for some reason, whether engine failure, downdraft, pilot error or whatever, the nose or rear landing gear hit the rocky seawall and drug the forward inertia down, causing the plane to lose lift, precipitating the landing flare-lowered tail to hit and break off. One whole rear landing gear came off entirely very soon after crashing and it's right there on the runway. Course the tail itself could have hit the wall or near it but there's so little debris or strike signature right around there and you'd think there would have been far more right in the area where the tail actually struck. That part of the tail section is far wider than any markings or trail on the runway. I wonder if the other rear landing gear is in the water, still under the fuselage, elsewhere on the field or in pieces. I haven't seen it. The right engine is off and up by the fuselage but the other is clear of the plane. I heard a witness of the crash say she saw the left engine fly off and onto a runway median right after the tail hit. Anybody that got off that plane alive and not horribly burned was blessed.