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Old 24th Mar 2015, 22:25
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Originally Posted by Return 2 Stand
I have a question for those in the know;

Why with this accident, is the aircraft so destroyed, the debris so small? Yet other accidents, where the aircraft came down from crusing altitude (MH17, Lockerbie).. was the wreckage much larger and recognisable?
Those aircraft broke up in flight which results in low speed impact with the ground. This aircraft impacted in one piece at high speed.
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