Originally Posted by HundredPercentPlease
C-SAR,
When you saw this bit for real, did it look like the angle of cuts was steeply downhill?
If it is not due to visual illusion (I don't think so), it is showing that cactus were cut by trailing edge of horizontal stab rather than leading edge, and will give the sinking angle in the opposite way. But of course, optical limitation would make it difficult to figure out without the shot being perfectly aligned with the ground and taken from another spot perpendicular to the path (which may be quite difficult to achieve discretly on the crashsite). C-SAR did quite well assuming the risk from local authorities!
S~
Olivier