Originally Posted by Machinbird
For a mental picture, imagine dumping a bucket of dirty water into a clear lake. The initial interface between the two would look something like an inverted mushroom.
Your intriguing model kept lingering in my mind. If your bucket was filled with pebblestones instead of dirty water, would they 'mushroom'?
I would draw a circle with radius 8.5 m around each engine position. Then, on a 95 percentile basis, any line connecting a point in one circle with one in the other could represent the orientation of the airplane's transverse axis at impact.
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HN39