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Old 10th May 2012, 14:43
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GarageYears
 
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Wreckage or pieces?

I'm rather confused...

On the one hand we have the pictures from the crash site, which on my admittedly brief inspection appear to show very little of any significant size left; basically indicating a high-speed impact in near level flight (assumption on my part).

On the other hand there appears to be a comment from the rescue/recovery team that the aircraft is in two (severely damaged) but identifiable pieces.

I can't imagine a scenario where the aircraft hit the cliff face resulting in anything other than total disintegration of the airframe (matching the photos), so how do the teams comments make sense?
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