Originally Posted by
PeteMonty
He is probably reluctant to share as he doesn't want to add to the 'rumour mill'. People hear one thing and then propagate it as fact. For eg this statement that the aircraft was seen 'in a tree'. In the pictures the aircraft is in the middle of a crop field, nowhere near a tree. None of the damage is consistent with hitting a tree and all the wreckage is together.
Wreckage is not permitted to be moved (to allow the AAIB to properly investigate based on what ended up where). There are no trenches or other marks in the ground so my (totally unofficial) view is that it struck the ground here going largely straight down...
An absence of trees in the photos does not rule out the aircraft hitting one. I was looking in particular at the semi-circular fold in the leading edge of the starboard wing close to the tip. Any thoughts on that please?
