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Old 25th Jan 2015, 21:43
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mseyfang
 
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We are seeing the center section (from the top side I believe) with the slats still retracted and the skin immediately behind the slats missing (probably removed by some hydraulic effect of water entry). The fuselage section seems to be missing the crown, and the break at the forward fuselage seems to angle up and aft into the center section.
I'm no expert on the A320, but that could also be the rest of the tail section with those "wings" actually being the horizontal stabilizers. Also looks like it rather fits that part of the empennage already recovered. I hope I'm right because if I'm not, they've badly mangled what from prior pictures looked to be a fairly intact section of the center fuselage extending forward and aft of each wing and at least a portion of each wing. Without scale, though, it's hard to tell with any certainty.
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