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Old 21st Jan 2022, 15:35
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Originally Posted by LowObservable
Without belaboring the obvious, the airplane is upside-down. Since it probably didn't get flipped on the recovery, and given the likely scenario and the dynamics involved, one suspects that it flipped beyond the vertical before it hit the water. In which case the pilot may well owe his life to auto-eject.
It seems incredibly unlikely that a largely-intact aircraft is going to sink through a vertical mile of water and then come to a rest on the bottom in the same orientation it hit the water. Think what happens if you leave a poorly-trimmed aircraft to its own devices in the air.
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