The L.A. Times reports that the recovered tail of Air France Flight 447 indicates the plane broke up in midflight, eerily similar to the 2001 crash of an American Airlines Airbus leaving New York. In the earlier accident American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus 300, had taken off into turbulence from a preceding 747 and the pilots apparently overcompensated with the rudder, causing the entire tail section to break off from the plane.
I’ve been thinking for a while now that these two crashes seem to be related. We’ll see for sure if/when the rest of the plane is found.