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Old 3rd Oct 2008, 08:12
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Press reports that some of the parts that remained more "intact" after the accident was the ceiling part of the airplane and one of the wings, the left one, with the right one being too severely damaged and broken in small pieces to potentially be of much help on the investigation.

The fuel deposit can still be seen.

The most important detail, the slat, is NOT EXTENDED (unofficially).




Landing gear is also fairly intact. Wheel on one can be observed as blown out, while another wheel has the tire completely out and burnt.

A large section of the ceiling could be reconstructed, including whole rows of windows.

Some of the toilets are also fairly intact.

Several seats also remain quite intact, with the safetly belts still attached.

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The "blame" game keeps on going.

Boeing's MEL Procedures Manual indicates that, in case of a RAT probe heater malfunction, the cause of the malfunction must be searched as well as related mechanisms checked. Same thing on the MMEL (Master MEL).

But the technicians that disconnected it, say that in the manual they consulted, they couldn't find what to do in case of the heater being on while on the ground, so they consulted the MEL (Minimun equipment list, section 34) only to figure out it wasn't really needed for that flight and the wiring diagram to figure out what fuse to disconnect.

The RAT probe heater had miss-behaved (turned on while on the ground, it's suppossed to do it only on the air) the previous day also. A total of 5 times it had been found to be "on" in the previous 48 hours, the newspaper says.

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