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Old 3rd Aug 2011, 19:00
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No tracks down the embankment?

I measure approximately 45 feet from the lip at the top of the embankment down to where the ground levels off under the tail. I see no tracks down that embankment in the photos in message 75.

How fast would the aircraft have to have been moving (at the top of the embankment) to have enough inertia to continue off the top of the embankment so that both the nose gear and MLG remain off the ground, leaving no tracks, until the aircraft settled into it's final resting location?

How slow would the aircraft have been going when it hit the dirt at it's final resting location so that it left no tracks other that the holes the gear made when they came to rest?
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