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43Inches
You can see into the back of the aircraft in a few of the scene pictures. It looks pretty empty in the back, unless of course somebody quickly removed evidence, but I doubt that would have been possible in the time available. Although the blue boxes in some of the pictures near the rear of the aircraft may have been the load, so maybe removed for some reason.
* They must have removed the load to get the pilot out looking at the scene, looks like no crew door or too damaged to open. Still eightish eskies would still only get you to mid weight of that size unless they are carrying lead weights or something, otherwise loading them would be a trial in itself if they were much more than 50kg each.
The AirMed Chieftains are all gutted inside. Looking forward from the air stair, there is usually a crane in the aft luggage space, a stretcher on the right, two seats on the left in club config, two seats forward behind the cockpit. If they’re running samples interstate, they may have removed the stretcher. HJE has a crew door so a possible egress route in this case.