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I was just looking at the pictures I got from the Airfield Safety Ofc. It appears as if there is a definite "wrinkle" in the fuselage skin in the left rear lower sheet metal (about the same place as where the cargo door is on the other side). I've talked with a couple of other folks about this and they are in agreement with me that it is likely secondary to fuselage warpage at that point just forward of the main bulkhead for the rear engine. We were vertical for the last couple of feet. It was enough force for the nose piece of my sunglasses to scrape the skin off of my nose. I'm thinking it may have been enough to cause the rear engine to flex downward, transmit that energy to the bulkhead and then to the fuselage outer skin. If my assumptions are correct, it probably condemns the airframe without getting major work on the back of the plane. Thoughts? KD
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