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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I think the recovery teams collect everything they can in the area with multiple sweeps. Then they lay it out as best as possible and pretty much try and figure out what happened where.
I think they have logs and stats on damn near every part its pretty thorough from what I can remember.
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