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Old 15th May 2010, 06:33
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Below is a very rough composite of the video taken on final and presented on NOVA at Player omroep.nl.

The image is intentionally not cleaned up; it is necessarily choppy due to the changing perspective which is not possible to represent on a flat surface; I tried it in pTgui (panorama building program) but it couldn't deal with the series of images. The 'S-turn's' at the beginning are a result of the composite work rather than the actual track of the aircraft.

As has been observed by others who have watched the video, the initial ground contact appears more flat and not at high descent rate as I first thought. Given the length of the path, the fragmentation of the fuselage and location of the wings, (far left in the composite) it may be reasonable to posit a high speed, low-rate of descent scenario.

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