Originally Posted by
jimmc66
It's obvious that there was no "cartwheeling". That's the first thing I heard about the crash, and I was expecting a pile of wreckage instead of a virtually whole airplane. Typical of the "over-reporting" on live incidents.
The people who used that term meant the fuselage was "spinning," as i it were mounted on a record turntable. Poor choice of colloquialisms but understandable.