Samson help

[Ashen Key]

Help me, ToS, you are my only hope...

*coughs*

Or, more seriously; I'm trying to write a story that's been kicking around in my head for over a year, and I keep running into the same problem and I'm hoping you guys could help me.

Very basic premise is: early on in their Pandora tour, Trudy's Samson (not Maya/Samson 16) is attacked by a toruk, and the aircraft ends up crashing in the jungle, leaving Trudy and Wainfleet alive (although I'm planning on her being injured) while Trudy's co-pilot is dead, and possibly so is everyone else on-board (or some could be alive, depending on how it plays out).

I can see the toruk grabbing the 'tail' of the Samson and swinging, like what happened in the final battle (and I figure after how many decades the RDA's been around, the resident toruks are getting good at attacking Samsons and Scorpions without getting shot up), but I have utterly no idea how the craft would react after being swung - how it would spin through the air, how it'd react, etc. I'm going to hazard a guess that a Samson wouldn't react like a helicopter that's lost its rear-rotor (which is to pitch forward and spin on a horizontal plane - if anyone has seen Black Hawk Down, you know what I mean) due to the difference in the craft's build, but I. Yeah. I'm stuck, and have utterly no brain for maths or engineering or physics, and so I was wondering if anyone of you guys could possibly help in working out how a Samson would react after being swung through the air. If it helps, here is the Samson page at the wikia.

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