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11th Mar 2019, 13:52

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Originally Posted by MLHeliwrench

https://imgur.com/u0pm0OE

anyone else see the blackened streak leading to the crash site? (Shown in aerial picture)

That’s detritus flying away from the impact point. In that image the aircraft basically crashed from left-to-right, with an awfully large vertical component.