Originally Posted by
Ewan Whosearmy
I was once on a BOI somewhere in Europe for an RAF aircraft - A local digger operator was recruited for us by the local Air Force liaison person (A Chief, so we were safe). The digger guy could peel away with his digger bucket vertical slices of earth no more than 5cm thick (would have been 2 inches in the UK) from the scar caused by the aircraft impact, all at the second-by-second direction of the AAIB rep. We may know military aviation - let digger operators do their job, and you are more likely to get the results you want.