Here are some scary pictures of vibration / torsion destruction of a glass airplane   

 

 

 

Here are the pictures of the Columbia 350 that broke it's tail upon hard landing and severe main gear shimmy upon heavy braking.  No other damage to A/C.  And, the tail never hit the ground.  Purely violent shimmy did this....

 

 

 

 

In a message dated 8/15/2009 8:07:03 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, farnsworth@charter.net writes:

Jon,

 

This is the picture of the Legacy accident that got my attention.

 

Lynn

 

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