Originally Posted by
cordwainer
Your video shows the plane landing on its belly almost immediately after the railway embankment. The report notes the entire wreckage path, from first impact with the wires to final rest was 1200 feet.
Did you allow for the additional 380 feet of distance before the second impact (1200ft-820ft)? It appears that would have been enough to put the beginning of the slide beyond the trees in your video. That also makes more sense of some witnesses describing a "cartwheel" and some describing a "bounce", i.e., if the plane were more or less still airborne for that 380 feet.
Cheers,
c
Hi. Is there not a discrepancy in reported distances? Wires impact to final pos. Of 1200 feet? Subtracting the distance between overhead wires and RR embankment from 1200 feet doesn’t allow for much room for debris trails?
Also, I am confused about the 380 foot gap in ground contact. If at ninety degree bank, at ground level on first ground collision, and falling at one gee, how could the aircraft have stayed aloft almost four hundred feet? This to me infers a fair amount of lift, no? Lift that is simply not available if first impact is as described elsewhere? Tends to support the theory of roughly level flight post embankment, IMO.
That is one hell of a “bounce”