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Old 24th May 2016, 17:00
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Mozella
 
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News reports say that one Egyptian forensics expert has examined 80 body fragments, the largest of which is a hand. Some of these tiny fragments show burn marks. None of them are large. Of course, this may or may not be true.

I was a TWA pilot when TWA 800 went down. The failure was at a relatively high altitude and quite catastrophic. There were some body fragments, but many were intact except their clothes were blown off while some were fully clothed with no sign of damage at all, like you would expect in a swimming pool drowning. I think it's safe to say the TWA 800 parts impacted the water at a significant speed, but not at ultra high speed as might be the case with an intact, but out-of-control aircraft nosing in at Vne.

Are there airline crashes at sea where there were no large human remains? Or does the lack of large body parts not indicate anything definitive?
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