Thanks for your detailed reply to my question, David.
I agree that the impact would have been serious and IMO not survivable. At least not for long.
Despite that impact the aircraft remained relatively intact, if Ken Backhouse's sketch is anything to go by, and I think it is. The fuselage forward section was crushed and one engine dislodged, possibly in the crash, but also possibly by removal by someone who was interested in it. Ken thought the tail section was gone but I suspect that due to the low profile of the vertical surfaces the tail was merely covered over by vegetation.
The USAAF had a chance to solve the mystery of the final landing place of Amelia Earhart's Electra in 1945. " It's not one of ours " they said, after examining the ID tag, and left it at that. Now, thanks to an amazing series of coincidences we have impressive evidence of where the plane came down and I think it is time for the US government to become involved again.
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