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Old 25th Jan 2015, 21:53
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Recovery video

I am sorry but that did not look like a professional salvage operation to me. There was no vertical lifting force on the fuselage once it met the stern of the anchor handling tug at a right angle, and the fuselage was not a flexible sausage nor a solid anchor which would roll over the stern


Instead the tension on the hauling ropes increased to breaking point at the critical position and they broke, consigning the fuselage to a second crash to the sea floor, probably distributing the victims over a wider area.


This act has made the operation far more difficult. They needed a floating crane of which there are many in SE Asia.
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