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Old 30th Jul 2014, 03:02
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piece of engine?
Can this be a little bit of engine?? from the Tail Field of debris. Solid cast-looking metal.

edge-on view
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/jer...57645908125941
top side
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/jer...57645908125941
turned over, bottom view
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/jer...57645908125941

I'm thinking, port engine would have ingested a fair bit of shrapnel (and not survived in one piece).
Looks like forged Titanium bonded as two halves of a fan blade. Certainly badly overstressed.

Considering the separated bits of the front of an engine in earlier pictures at the crash site, this piece was likely found at the crash site and due to the crash itself.

Anything else this small if departed at altitude, would just be well scattered flotsam and jetsam among all the war debris in that part of the country.

disclaimer: it's had to get interested in minute details if one accepts a missile strike as the cause.
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