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for larger version       A 'Tail' Of Two Aircraft
Three years after the accident, the National Transportation Safety Board ruled that the tail came off the plane, causing the crash into Belle Harbor that killed all 260 people on the plane and five on the ground, because the first office used the rudder inputs too aggressively in response to a wake turbulence incident. There have been several other incidents involving the tail and rudder structures of Airbus A300 series aircraft since then and maintenance workers recently found that hydraulic fluid disbands the material that holds the tail together. In early May, an Airbus A320, with the same exact composite tail as the A300 that crashed in Belle Harbor, came down just short of landing in southern Russia. The tail of the Armenian A320 was found in the Black Sea, nearby where the crash occurred. Armenian officials have blamed "pilot error" for the crash.
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