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Old 25th Mar 2022, 10:54
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The life feed shows video from this morning. The search at that time recovered what appears a big fragment of the top of one MLG, broken in half, the big connection rods broken in half (deformation - no plasticity it seems), trunnion on one side still shiny, the fragment required 5-6 man to carry, so say roughly at least 120kg weight.

Recovery status impression around 1050utc:

cockpit area - probably or only light material (documentation reported),
tail - maybe found today 25th,
horizontal stabiliser - big part suggested but not seen in photo or videostream yet,
winglet left hand - no sign,
winglet right hand, with part of the outer wing - right hand most likely,
wing itself - fragments of outer wing possible,
fuselage - from early on part of the top panel in front of the fwd escape hatch, probable,
fuselage - multiple large pieces of outer shell, all bent and torn and pushed flat,
engine - one certain, other no sign,
MLG/NLG - suggested is one of the main,
instruments - no sign or report of any till now,
instruments - wiring, no sign or report of any till now
total - in total about 183 parts, bigger fragments are collected in a row of tents on location,
total - a few hundred structure fragments and perhaps other types of fragments in between,
CVR - confirmed


Rough outline of the accident area:

The main area of interest is running N to S in what I call the gulley (low valley you might say). In the upper half of that NS-stretch is the main impact area which contains almost all (bigger) fragments). To the North of the gulley is a burned forrested area. The area with the 'possible burned landslide' (the other one of Lonewolf_50s two photos) is an estimated 300-400 m to the East and has no involvement with the accident.


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