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Old 10th Jan 2015, 13:56
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Video of recovered tail

Here is a video of the recovered tail section, presumably taken from the same helicopter as the photo in BJ-ENG's post. Good view at the 20-30 secs position.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG8i...ature=youtu.be

The size of the fuselage wall section is remarkably large (several windows) suggesting that the CVR and FDR were originally in that part of the plane. But it has broken up pretty badly IMHO from the point of view of finding the recorders.

PS: I think the fuselage has split along the bottom, and in the picture it is lying upside down on the ship's deck.

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