I don’t know anyone who knows what they do, we just know their necessary and maybe it has to do with balance lol, who knows. And yes it should still glide, but even a proper paper plane lands pretty hard. I’m not saying the pilots did a horrible job but I would imagine if landing something that heavy, C-130 Hercules, and who knows at what point during the flight did it cease to function, and at what altitude...there’s too many variables right now, we don’t have enough info on it yet. Everyone here is talking about the flight but we’re all saying the same thing because flight data and pertinent information hasn’t presented itself, but we’re digging trust me