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Old 15th Apr 2011, 14:06
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Ah. Lone, the pictures show a 200 meter high by 600 meter wide major field of debris with a few outriders. The field is vaguely whale shaped with about 300 meters by 150 meters of dense debris and a lump out maybe 300 meters to the fat end of the whale shape and a little knife shape sticking out from the middle of the whale and another short bright line of something maybe 400 to 500 meters away on the same side as the "knife". Compare that with the size of the plane itself and you can easily see this isn't well related to the size of the plane. It fits within the debris field with a lot of spare no matter which way you turn the plane. (The whale points roughly to the East for its "head" end. I bet that's where the engine is with the rest being where the smaller pieces fell. So the currents seen were predominantly east to west. That's a surmise, though. I'm no expert in this.)
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