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Old 23rd Nov 2010, 19:21
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RetiredF4
 
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Still on the crash site?

CONF iture
You could hypothesize so many things ie how both fuel control switches disappeared.
How long between the crash and that picture ?
If you zoom in on the picture, one could assume it was taken at the crash site. To the upper left there is ground visible. The red colour comes from plastik bags with some part of a flower or a olive-branch in it, like bought in a flower shop. Either those had been dropped as mourning greeetings for the crew or they had been carried on the airplane or in the cockpit.

However i dont think from the complete arrangement that it was taken in the flight safety shop.

The missing engine fire lights........... no idea. Could it be that those are fixed mainly on a frame below the panel and only the covers themselves sheared off?

There might be markings on the throttle quadrant and the linkage which can tell the position of the throttles at first impact, however not visible on the picture.

Thanks for the picture, are there more available?

franzl
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