Originally posted by Peter-1959 ...
.... but will this be all affecting its actual position on the seafloor?
shape of wreck, weight, currents at higher depts, I wonder if a simulation has been worked with different scenarios depending on how fast the wreck sank, while going down affected by different current speeds (and possibly directions), with different types of damage to hull and wings.
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post #322 I made mention of some contributing factors that will have affected the progress of wreckage from the sea surface to the bottom. The process is complicated by not knowing the exact state of the a/c hull following its impact with the water, but I suspect that it is in three separate pieces, along with the cores of each engine. That makes for five separate paths to the bottom, of which the engines can be considered as straight-down items. Read the above post and then discount sub-surface current affects on the way to the bottom - they are minor. In other words, you are looking for a bottom debris field of about 400m radius, and probably smaller.
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