(September 15, 2016 at 7:32 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(September 15, 2016 at 6:28 pm)BetaOrionis Wrote: http://www.democraticunderground.com/dis...z=view_all
Read that and let me know what you think.
You would be surprised how hard it actually can be to identify parts of a crashed aircraft, even those not involving a building and resultant fire.
I worked a crash in October of 1989 at Carswell AFB in Texas. Two-seat F-16 went in to soft earth at almost 400 kts IA. The biggest recognizable piece was the turbine assembly of the engine, which came through our firehouse roof and set to rest on a roofing girder -- about 800 feet from the crash site. About two cubic feet and mangled to Hell and gone. There was also about five square feet of one of the wings relatively intact, and the landing gear -- dense metal can survive high impacts, as the picture above shows.
The rest of the plane was in pieces almost all smaller than a foot square in area, and scattered downrange of the impact in the direction of flight as far as 3/4 mile (most pieces were much closer). Indeed, the fire truck I was assigned to could not respond to the crash as pieces of the plane had holed our water tanks (truck was parked outside after morning checkout and we couldn't bring water to the site. We were cross-manned as the resupply pumper, so we jumped on that one and hooked up to underground hydrants to aid the other responding trucks).
The largest human remains we found were a foot inside a combat boot and a section of ribcage. Everything else, both plane and occupants, was pulverized beyond recognition.
http://www.f-16.net/aircraft-database/F-...file/2395/
Thump, you're a fire fighter? Sorry if you mentioned it already; I haven't read back very far in the thread.
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