It looked very suspicious how "intact" it is. But I thought it was a big no no to move wreckage bits, they should be photo'd in situ? Still, the level of destruction on those wings does not look like the other wing failures, which show an almost intact wing and a clean break right at the fuselage. I'd also imagine if there was real credibility to the wing separation theory we would have seen that more clearly mentioned in the link (unless I missed it)
FWIW: Aside from the distance, usually the wing would stay intact. Considering both wings failed in pieces, seems to indicate a sequential failure due to structural overload, in addition to the tail feather separation.
There is nothing attached to anything in that photo. With all major components located within 475ft it would certainly suggest that everything stayed on until impact or very shortly before. But yeah, there is nothing in that photo itself that would lead me to conclude the wings stayed on all the way down.
Fairly certain that image is not how the wreckage was found. Look at the wreckage diagram. Some was near the pond, some on the other side of the barn, etc. In my opinion that image was the pieces all placed back together after they were documented at their original location, to show that everything was present.
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Look how close the inboard sections of the wings are. While the wings may have at some point separated I highly down this is an ERAU style accident
I hope so too.. but that descending swooping turn thing is a fairly common "we're joyriding" thing to do. There was just a video posted here recently (incidentally also about a crash) where the pilot was going up and down a river, climbing, then doing a swooping low turn. It's a relatively "aggressive" maneuver
FWIW: it depends on how you define "flutter." How anything falls from altitude depends on direction of velocity, mass, drag, and gravity. People a lot smarter than me can actually map out debris fields based on those factors. For example, in this accident, there's a reason the fuselage/engine ended up ahead of everything else by the pond. Short of a flat spin with zero forward velocity how all the pieces lay is a very telling story. In my experience, as to wings themselves, most wings that depart in flight usually have fuel aboard that affects its trajectory where it follows the lawn dart mode once the drag streamlines the wing. The majority of debris that I know of that actually "flutters/floats" down after a catastrophic airborne failure is cowling, papers, luggage items, etc.
