Photographs show the violent force deformed the plane's fuselage, forced the tail wheel to deploy and likely resulted in the plane's trim tab -- a piece of the tail -- to fly off, the safety board said.

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So far a portion of the skull and jaw, both hands and arms, elements of both feet, a piece of the tail, vertebrae and ribs have been discovered.

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He believes that the capacity to produce art evolved in a way similar to that famous piece of natural frippery, the peacock's tail.

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The important lesson from the tail though is that, well, umm, what can we each use as a piece of such branding?

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