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Old 3rd Mar 2009, 09:33
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mikeepbc
 
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Rainboe,

And what is the importance of where the engines are lying? It might surprise some of you, but crashing planes don't always behave 'logically'.
On the contrary, I strongly believe planes DO behave logically, although it's sometimes quite hard to reconstruct the nature of all the dependencies; that's why accident investigation takes a while (and sometimes leaves us with unanswered questions).
And debris distribution / condition of the wreckage could tell much about the circumstances, thus it's very thoroughly documented by the investigators.

what caused a perfectly fit 737 to fall out of the sky?
That's exactly what bothers us all. What we can see on the photos and Dutch police chopper video is consistent with relatively low forward speed with wings level, nose-high attitude and suggests significant RPM on at least one engine. Hopefully anaysis of FDR and CVR recordings will provide strong evidence (modern A/C = lots of data) and lead to causes of this situation. But now we're limited to some publicly available clues (of which photos are the most important and eyewitness reports - least). Of course we are waiting for the final report, though somewhat impatiently - hence this forum...

Regards,
MikeEPBC

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