Airbus crash: Experts still puzzled

Neither turbulence from another jet nor pressure placed on the rudder by a desperate pilot should have been enough to snap off the tail of Flight 587, aviation experts have said.

Neither turbulence from another jet nor pressure placed on the rudder by a desperate pilot should have been enough to snap off the tail of Flight 587, aviation experts have said.

Their conclusion raised the prospect that something was wrong with the plane before it left the ground.

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