Further information about the excavation.
The aircraft was identified as Lv881 because its remains and their location match perfectly with the reported loss of the aircraft. Objects from the site also confirm this.
Material and remains were removed from the site after it crashed with the deceased being taken to Hannover cemetery. Remarkably, the crash itself was witnessed by a 15 year old boy who is now a local farmer and remembers the event.
The site has also already been subject to a walkover survey by archaeologists and will be subject to excavation this September.
Excavations on these sorts of sites are carried out in a variety of ways, some more 'delicate' than others. As I understand it, the aircraft did not create a deep impact crater but must have come in at a shallower angle dispersing objects over a reasonable area. Therefore it is not expected that material will be very deeply buried. As a result the excavation will take place in gridded squares that will subdivide the various debris locations. This will help to create a distribution record of object locations across the area. This work will help us not only to recover objects from the site but say a little more about the final moments of the flight.
Work will be directed by an experienced group from HessenArchaeologie. I will be visiting the project at the beginning of September.