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Originally posted by Zaphod58
You're comparing a plane crash where the pilot was trying NOT to crash, with a plane crash where the plane went straight down into soft earth. They look NOTHING alike. There was an A-6 Intruder crash once where it went straight into the ground. The first thing they said when they got there was "Where's the plane?" The found the engines almost 10 feet underground and compressed to 3 feet long. In a low speed level crash, you're right, it DOESN'T look like that. In a high speed nose down crash the fuselage is going to compress in on itself like an accordion.
Francis also said it is doubtful that large sections of the plane will be found. The largest piece of wreckage found so far is only 8 feet long. Thus far, no bodies have been located, but searchers have reportedly recovered body parts.
An estimated 2 million pieces of debris were recovered and brought ashore for inspection at a secure handling facility in a marine industrial park at Sheet Harbour where small material was hand inspected by teams of RCMP officers looking for human remains, personal effects and valuables from the aircraft's cargo hold.
Originally posted by Zaphod58
You're comparing a plane crash where the pilot was trying NOT to crash, with a plane crash where the plane went straight down into soft earth. They look NOTHING alike. There was an A-6 Intruder crash once where it went straight into the ground. The first thing they said when they got there was "Where's the plane?" The found the engines almost 10 feet underground and compressed to 3 feet long. In a low speed level crash, you're right, it DOESN'T look like that. In a high speed nose down crash the fuselage is going to compress in on itself like an accordion.