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Old 22nd Dec 2017, 15:08
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Concours77
 
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Hi....

But there is a fence post in the ditch six feet East of the landing gear. At the bottom, and vertical. It even has a sign on it.

The ditch is a gulley, with a neat and narrow trench at its bottom. The trench is six inches wide, the spar is almost two feet.

The trench was supposed to get a pipe laid in it, likely for water.

The gulley is almost two hundred feet long. What was left of the wing at this location was no more than fifty feet in span. How did the wreckage miss the fence post but carve a continuous gulley through it?

The wreck may have slid. If it did, it was heading whilst upright, heading forward. The wheels fell into the gulley, and the assembly “pitch poled”, landing upside down, “facing” South. Tail on its VS.

In the last fifty feet of its journey, there was little energy left, that disappeared as it rotated end for end. Then it caught fire.
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