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Old 10th March 2019 | 15:13
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Silver Pegasus
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Originally Posted by NAROBS
You're having a giraffe ? Presumably crashed fully fuelled. Locals said they couldn't get near it for some time because of the conflagration. And the fire appears to have been hot enough to disappear any vestige of the alu/mag structure of the aircraft. What chance any plastic and resin parts in the digital recorders e.g. circuit boards and components.

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They are designed to survive high energy fuel fires... Aircraft structures and skins are not.
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