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Old 9th Nov 2015, 17:44
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What you really need to examine are all the fractures. Which is precisely what the investigators will do. Those fractures will tell you the direction of the forces that caused the fracture, and from those you can start to build a picture of which bit broke what.

None of which can be extrapolated from a bunch of photos.

In the mean time (!) here's a very approximate superimposition of the original airframe onto the previous photo:

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