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Old 11th May 2011, 23:42
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Other than an academic point of view .. what is the importance of the "trajectory" when a/c hit water or a/c heading for the investigation of the accident ?
At this point in time it is becoming less important since many of the "high value" items have been located, however the aircraft heading at impact is preserved in the wreckage trail, and once known can be used with some success to infer locations of specific items of the wreckage, even those items not visible in the mapping of the wreckage. If DFDR data is not available, then many seemingly inconsequential portions of the wreckage will be needed to infer what happened.
Once (as we all hope) the data is read successfully, they may be looking for specific items to further define what happened. Until the data collection phase of the investigation is over at the wreckage site, the more known about the impact conditions, the better.
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