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Old 27th Aug 2012, 19:17
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Grassfield
 
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For what it's worth, recent news says a part of the wing(?) was recovered 1 or 2km from the crash site... one of the articles say the piece found is 1x3 meters which is a piece of substantial size and would suggest an inflight break-up of some of the structures, if the facts are correct. Really disturbing, I though this plane was more or less "unbreakable"... Admittedly the radar picture in previous post (or checking historic pictures on meteox.com) looks rather difficult. But does this accident have any resemblance to the June accident in Florida where a PC12 went down under unclear circumstances but also seems to have suffered from an inflight break-up?

We'll probably have to wait for long for the accident report, but let's hope we can learn something from this one where a highly experienced pilot in a highly sophisticated and sturdy plane goes down

Accident d'avion: une aile de l'appareil suisse retrouve dans un champ - Suisse - Actualits - Arcinfo - site de L'Express, L'Impartial et de Canal Alpha

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