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Old 13th Sep 2010, 12:48
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El Grifo
 
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With you now BOAC !

The main point of my interest was driven by the fact that there was no impact trail as such.

All that was visible, was a deep smoking crater, not large in diameter, containing and closely surrounded by engine and undercarriage parts only.

The area around was fringed with very small aircraft parts, some driven deep into the barks of a line of small trees, standing nearby.

I could never fully understand how an aircraft, which was normally observed flying straight and level at low level, could end up hitting the terrain at at such a perpendicular angle.

The toss bombing references supplied by NorthSouth pretty much cleared that on up for me.
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