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Old 10th Apr 2014, 20:48
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jmjdriver1995
 
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Corpse Recovery???

Several posts have commented about the possibility of recovering bodies from the wreckage of MH370 for post mortem examination. While this would be desirable for several reasons, it is probably not at all feasible. First of all, the impact probably would have shattered many if not all of the bodies on the plane, alive at the time or dead for several hours. Five weeks immersion in salt water will do some really ugly things to human tissue. What the water doesn't destroy, marine life likely will. The fish, crabs and other aquatic life we are used to near the surface probably don't exist at 10K to 15K feet deep. But, as confirmed by Trieste and other deep diving submersibles, there definitely is "life" at those depths and those living organisms have to feed on something.
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