darn

How did that happen? Upside down, gear down and no wings or empennage visible, yet the fuselage appears to be largely intact. Weird !

I hope we are only practicing.

That was a Mandarin Airlines MD-11 that came into Chek Lap Kok Airport in Hong Kong the night before during a typhoon and caught some windshear. If I remember right it was late summer of '99. Three passengers died.

That must have been some serious windshear to strip the wings and tail off that airplane. My God, how sad.