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Old 9th Jan 2020, 02:15
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Originally Posted by meleagertoo
I'm not at all sure one can assume that the direction of ground impact has any correlation whatsoever to the direction of flight before an assumed muissile strike. If a wing comes off and the wreckage rolls and spins on the way doen it could hit the ground on any heading imaginable regardless of where it started from.

Let's be careful about such assumptions.
An early video taken from a cell phone shows the aircraft in a steep spiral as it came down. it certainly did not look like a controlled turn.
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