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Old 17th April 2011 | 21:53
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lomapaseo
 
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For those driven by knowing and positing, ...how the airplane ended up like this, how the wreckage rests and the what the relations are between the location of parts are important because sense can be made of seeming chaos and seemingly unimportant small details. But the tiny flashlight we are forced in total darkness to use means the details can be argued until someone inevitably sees a different pattern and changes our view or knowledge becomes unimportant and superceded in the light of later developments. The best description about all this is, it's "tea leaves" even as some remain driven in the face of it.

PJ2
I'm not sure that I see what detail of the latest pics is necessary to understand vs what is fun to explore on a discussion board.

So far what I see is confirmation of what the BEA said initially about how the aircraft hit. Of course even before they released that info some of us had deduced that from the recovered wrechage photos

The clock positions of the damage to the major case behind the fan (with the struts) viewing both engines would both confirm if the engines were both attached (same wreckage area) and what roll angle the wings were in. Views of the inlet cowls on the bottom would also both confirm this as well as the pitch.

So far an awful lot of what we see fits nicely into Occams razor of a flat impact per the BEA. If there is some other theory I haven't seen anything in the latest pics that points to this.
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