eli5: How do plane crash investigators determine what broke mid air vs. what broke when it hit the ground?

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When a plane crash occurs, usually there are hundreds of bits of plane shattered everywhere. I watch shows like “Air Disasters”, but they never explain how they know the “right wing flap came apart mid air” or know how the “fan blade dislodged on impact and not in the air”?

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another thing that I’ve heard is, they’ll check to see if the dead pilots wrist are snapped, if they are, they had the flight stick in hand when it hit the ground

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