Originally Posted by
A0283
What would the damage look like, if an almost intact A320 would dive almost straight in?
Millions of tiny bits'n pieces....
Whatever remained would show orthogonal/circumferantial crumple lines instead of longitudinal.
This one here pretty surely hit flat (with maybe a touch of bank angle). If anything rather a tad Nose Up rather than Nose Down. Especially the seat structures showed signs of vertical and pratically no visible longitudinal bending. The same with the folds in the fuselage/tail skin